[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq on FreeBSD not listening on specified interfaces

[Jason Mann]

Thanks, that did the job.

Apologies for not reading the man page more carefully.

On 21 September 2017 at 13:55, Chris Novakovic <chris at chrisn.me.uk> wrote:

> On 21/09/2017 12:19, Jason Mann wrote:
> > I have tried to configure dnsmasq to listen only on 'lan' and 'lan.129'
> > (plus the implicit 'lo0') with the following directives:
> >
> > interface=lan
> > interface=lan.129
> >
> > However, after a restart, dnsmasq is still listening on all interfaces
> (*)
>
> From the man page:
>
> > -z, --bind-interfaces
> >     On systems which support it, dnsmasq binds the wildcard address,
> even when it is listening on only some interfaces. It then discards
> requests that it shouldn't reply to. This has the advantage of working even
> when interfaces come and go and change address. This option forces dnsmasq
> to really bind only the interfaces it is listening on. About the only time
> when this is useful is when running another nameserver (or another instance
> of dnsmasq) on the same machine. Setting this option also enables multiple
> instances of dnsmasq which provide DHCP service to run in the same machine.
>
> Try adding "bind-interfaces" to your configuration. (The man page also
> describes a "bind-dynamic" option, but this won't work under FreeBSD.)
>
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