[Dnsmasq-discuss] 2.68rc4: bind-interfaces, FreeBSD, IPv6 2001:... addr fails and loses error code, parallel build brittle

Simon Kelley simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Wed Dec 4 11:03:20 GMT 2013


On 04/12/13 01:09, Matthias Andree wrote:

> I don't think so - I rather suspect that this is a rare occasion and I
> was the first to see and report it.  It would seem we have four
> nondefault constraints for the bug to show:
>
> 1. IPv6 needs to be enabled on the external interface
> 2. a global IPv6 needs to be configured, either manually, or
> autoconfigured from an external router
> 3. dnsmasq needs to be installed
> 4. dnsmasq needs to use --bind-interfaces.
>
>

I think you're right. Certainly I was able to reproduce the problem in 
my Freeb=BSD test VM, by adding a globally-routable IPv6 address which 
isn't normally there.


Cheers,

Simon.




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