[Dnsmasq-discuss] UPDATE - failed to create listening socket

wkitty42 at gmail.com wkitty42 at gmail.com
Fri May 11 15:50:06 BST 2018


On 05/11/2018 07:08 AM, Pan, Peter wrote:
> failed to create listening socket for 192.168.178.15 Cannot assign requested address
> FAILED to start up
> Failed to start dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server
> 
> My dnsmasq.conf:
> 
> listen-address=127.0.0.1,192.168.178.10,192.168.178.12,192.168.178.15

why are you trying to assign these addresses to your dnsmasq? from your hosts 
file, they appear to belong to other systems...

unless i'm mistaken, this line is the list of addresses on this box that will 
listen for connections... in other words, addresses belonging to this box...

to explain the line further, if you have five addresses on this box, you can 
limit it responding to only three of those addresses if you want...

what is the local 192.168.178 address for this box? that is the address you 
would list along with localhost...

[...]
> My hosts file:
> 
> 127.0.0.1       localhost
> 127.0.1.1       RASPBERRY-PI-SERVER
> 
> 192.168.178.1   fritz.box.luna.lan fritz.box               ## Router FRITZ!Box 7430
> 192.168.178.10  e1-pc.luna.lan e1-pc                   ## Laptop E1-PC
> 192.168.178.12  e2-pc.luna.lan e2-pc                   ## Laptop E2-PC
> 192.168.178.15  erik-galaxay-a5-2017.luna.lan erik-galaxy-a5-2017     ## 
> Smartphone Erik


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