[Dnsmasq-discuss] Problems with dnsmasq configuration

[richardvoigt at gmail.com]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Danijel Šili <shinhan7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm 99% sure this is due to me not doing something right, but seeing as
> nobody on ubuntuforums ( http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9504944 )
> was able to help me, I wanted to ask here for help.
>
> My config is:
> # /etc/dnsmasq.conf
>
> domain-needed
> bogus-priv
> address=/doubleclick.net/127.0.0.1
> except-interface=eth0
> dhcp-range=interface:eth1,192.168.1.10,192.168.1.127,12h
> dhcp-range=interface:eth2,192.168.2.10,192.168.2.127,12h
> log-queries
>
> (eth0 is lan card toward ADSL router, eth1 is lan card toward wireless AP,
> and eth2 is lan card toward wired switch)
>
> Every time I start dnsmasq I get "failed to bind DHCP server socket: Address
> already in use". Googling this error for dnsmasq prompted me to run "netstat
> -antuevp" (and netstat with various other parameters) as well as "lsof -i"
> and I always got only portmap, rpc.statd, smbd, sshd, mysqld, named, samba
> and apache2 in the list of programs. I used to have dhcpd but I did remove
> it.

named looks like a conflict for the DNS port, don't see any DHCP conflicts

If you wanted to use DHCP only, no DNS, try using the "port=0" option.

>
> Thanks for any help you might be able to give.
>
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