[Dnsmasq-discuss] could not bind dnsmasq to mutiple interfaces with same ip-address

Simon Kelley simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Fri May 14 15:08:50 BST 2010


Michael Rack wrote:
> I have in mind, that dnsmasq does not handle DHCP Requests if there is a
> ip-address configured. I switched then to bind-interfaces...

you can use --interface without --bind-interfaces
> 
> But why is the same config not working as before?
> DNSMAQ did not had problems on my old server with this configuration.

Different versions of dnsmasq? I only looked at the latest code to see
how it would behave with repeated IP addresses, older code may break
differently.

Cheers,
Simon.

> 
> 
> Am 14.05.2010 11:01, schrieb Simon Kelley:
>> More than one interface with the same address is causing confusion. That
>> seems a very strange thing to do, but commenting out bond4 and bond5
>> won't cause any problems, dnsmasq will still be listening on 91.205.12.0
>> Unless there's a good reason, removing "bind-interfaces" will make this
>> configuration much easier to use.
>>
>>
>> HTH
>>
>>
>> Simon.
>>    
> 




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