[Dnsmasq-discuss] RFE: improve dnsmasq survivability and resilience

[Gene Czarcinski]

These days many/some systems have made quick bootup speed an important 
objective.  Thus, on Fedora 17 with performance hardware, NetworkManager 
and dnsmasq are in a race for initializing interfaces and dnsmasq is losing.

By losing I mean that dnsmasq fails startup because one or more of its 
interfaces are not completely initialized.  The chrond date/time 
client/server (in place of ntpd) does not have that problem and 
completes initialization when interface initialization is complete.

Once dnsmasq is running, and interface can be taken down (disconnect) 
and later re-enabled/connectioned and dnsmasq handles that situation fine.

It sure would be better if dnsmasq always handled this situation.

Gene