[Dnsmasq-discuss] DNSMASQ fails to start on boot

[David Griffiths]

Thanks for the reply kwitty42. Unfortunately you're talking to a linux novice and I am 
not sure of all the answers but...

I am running Raspian Jessie which does use systemd I believe.

I have also confirmed that dnsmasq runs a startup script in /etc/init.d which says 
that it requires $NETWORK.

Can you spell out for me how I check the interface status in the script please?

Cheers,
DG

> On 10/19/2016 12:06 AM, David Griffiths wrote:
> > I found a discussion talking about the same problem on Ubuntu but the
> > recommended fix did not work for me :-(
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dnsmasq/+bug/1531184
> >
> > It is a case of DNSMASQ starting before the network is ready.
> >
> > Any suggestions please?
> 
> you can't have your DNSMASQ start up script check to see if the network is up 
> before starting DNSMASQ? systemd isn't involved in your RPi installation, is it? 
> the older style init.d scripts (sysV??) should be much easier to work with... 
> check the interfaces' statuses with the ip or ipconfig command and see if they 
> are ready to be used...
> 


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