[Dnsmasq-discuss] Question about the error message

[richardvoigt at gmail.com]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Saori Fukuta
<fukuta.saori at jp.fujitsu.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I got the following message at /var/log/messages,
>   dnsmasq[13884]: no address range available for DHCP request via eth3
> when I have the following steps with dnsmasq-2.39-2.el5 (on RHEL-5.2):
>   1. start the dnsmasq, which is started by libvirt, with the
>      following option.
>      # /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --keep-in-foreground --strict-order
> --bind-interfaces --pid-file  --conf-file  --listen-address 192.168.122.1--except-interface lo --dhcp-leasefile=/var/lib/libvirt/dhcp-default.leases
> --dhcp-range 192.168.122.2,192.168.122.254
>   2. change the network address of eth3 to '0.0.0.0'.
>      # ifconfig eth3 0 up
>   3. dnsmasq receives the DHCPINFORM message from DHCP servers of
>      Windwos 2003 server.
>      # tethereal -i eth3
>      5.521471 10.123.234.11 -> 255.255.255.255 DHCP DHCP Inform   -
> Transaction ID 0xbe180000
>
> Do you know why the message appeared ? Please tell me the meaning of
> this message.


If you are serving DHCP addresses on that subnet from a Windows 2003 server,
you should not enable dnsmasq's dhcp listener on that interface.  Right now,
you're asking for DHCP operation of every interface except 'lo'.


>
>
> Regards,
> Saori Fukuta
>
>
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