[Dnsmasq-discuss] failed to bind server socket for : Address family not supported by protocol

[Simon Kelley]

niels at netbox.org wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I’ve recently upgraded to 2.53test27 (from freebsd:ports 2.52 stable) 
> because I noticed dns blacklists were not working with the 
> stop-dns-rebind option, and I wanted to use the new (temporary?) 
> rebind-domain-ok option.
> 
> This caused the following error:
> May 25 18:02:05 xxx dnsmasq[58660]: failed to bind server socket for 
> 192.168.1.7: Protocol not supported
> May 25 18:02:05 xxx dnsmasq[58660]: FAILED to start up
> 
> The funny thing here being that 192.168.1.7 is on the local network but 
> is *not* an address on the host running dnsmasq.
> 
> This only occurs with configuration option bind-interfaces in effect: 
> after removing bind-interfaces things work as they should.
> 
> So I suspect something has changed with the implementation of 
> bind-interfaces that causes dnsmasq to try bind to bogus addresses in 
> some cases.
> 

Thanks for that: please could you see if

http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/release-candidates/dnsmasq-2.53rc3.tar.gz

fixes things?


Cheers,

Simon.