[Dnsmasq-discuss] It works: multiple dnsmasqs running

Simon Kelley simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Mon Oct 15 10:22:14 BST 2012


On 13/10/12 19:39, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> Attached is the patch that worked.  Do you intend to incorporate this
> into dnsmasq?

Yes, I'll add the equivalent of this and Vladislav's patch to git today. 
Good work, thanks for chasing this.
>
> I still have the setting of IPV6_V6ONLY and I do not know if this is
> needed.  I will try and run some tests without it and see if it still
> works.

I think Valdislav's argument that it's useful thing to have is persusive.
>
> Now that I have something that can run multiple dnsmasq dhcp6 servers at
> the same time, I am going to spend time to get my "testing kludge" in
> libvirt working.
>
> I again proved to myself that specifying listen-address=<ip4-address>
> and listen-address=<ip6-address> does not work with dhcp6 whereas
> specifying interface=eth0 does.  I am not sure how/why it seems to work
> with dhcp4 (as demonstrated by libvirt) but not dhcp6.  BTW, there is
> one difference: libvirt specifies --listen-address on the command line
> whereas I had it in a conf file.
>

I'll take a look at this.



Cheers,

Simon.





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