[Dnsmasq-discuss] [dnsmasq] Errors found by static analysis of source code (Coverity)

[Gene Czarcinski]

On 02/06/2013 02:29 AM, Tomas Hozza wrote:
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>> On 02/05/2013 03:13 PM, Tomas Hozza wrote:
>>> I can do that and doing my best in Fedora and RHEL.
>> I had not noticed your email address until just now.  It is Fedora
>> and RHEL that I had in mind but, IIRC, there are other distributions that
>> have non-current dnsmasq.  As far as that goes, Fedora 17 had
>> dnsmasq-2.59 until I griped about it and then the updates were
>> promptly made.
> I'm maintaining dnsmasq only since 2012-10-22. I can't tell how it
> was before. Maintainers also have more than one package to look after
> so we have to prioritize work to fix more serious bugs first.
>
>> With something link dnsmasq it pays to keep as "currrent" as you can.
> I agree. I noticed this during last couple of months, too.
>
>
Some of this is due to additional exploit of dnsmasq fucntionality such 
as doing both DHCP and RA services for IPv6 in the latest libvirt 
(1.0.2).  Dnsmasq needed some fixes so that it worked correctly.  It was 
interesting working both the libvirt and the dnsmasq sides so that they 
were both marching to the same music.

The only problem I currently have with dnsmasq is that there is no 
predictable way to have a system assigned as specific IPv6 address the 
way you can with IPv4 (MAC).  When everything is working, it is OK but 
if something disturbs that (boot up  on a different address) and it 
requires manual intervention to get things back in sync.

Gene