dnsmasq < 2.61 cause problems with dhcp in single-bound VLAN interfaces

[Christian Parpart]

Hi,

please read [1][2] for detailed informations and reasons.

dnsmasq version 2.60 and below contain a bug that cause OpenStack (part of Ubuntu) to malfunction when put into VLAN mode.
As this is the recommended setup for production use, but its dependency (dnsmasq) has a bug to cause VM instances to fatally loose their IP address, I would highly rate this a major issue, and request a version bump in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS seems to just provide 2.59-4 in precise/universe.

Best regards,
Christian Parpart.

[1] http://osdir.com/ml/openstack-cloud-computing/2012-05/msg00785.html
[2] http://osdir.com/ml/openstack-cloud-computing/2012-06/msg00602.html

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

Fixed in Quantal.

Would probably be a good idea to have the following patch SRU'd to Precise:
http://thekelleys.org.uk/gitweb/?p=dnsmasq.git;a=commitdiff;h=9380ba70d67db6b69f817d8e318de5ba1e990b12

Nominating for Precise.

[Christian Parpart (trapni)]

Hey,

please do not mark this as "INVALID", as this is a major bug in production environments, and since I am talking about 12.04 LTS (Precise) this MUST be respected to get fixed.

Otherwise one might Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise not as Enterprise and would result in not using Ubuntu in datacenters anymore.

Please bump the precise package.

[Christian Parpart (trapni)]

p.s.: I am new to launchpad, and I don't find the UI that intuitive (talking about ticket states), so please apology if I rate "states" the wrong way.

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

@Christian: In Launchpad the main task tracks if the fix is in the development release (or HEAD of development). Since this is already fixed in Ubuntu in Quantal, the main task is "Invalid" (or "fixReleased"). It is still very much a needed fix in Precise though, hence me creating a specific task to track that.

[Christian Parpart (trapni)]

Hey, thanks, and now I also found this one:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dnsmasq/+bug/1006898

which is exactly what I was talking about (interesting that I didn't find earlier).

However, the last commenter says he's pulling it into precise "next days", but this is about 2 weeks ago. :-(

[Simon Kelley (simon-thekelleys)]

On 15/06/12 14:54, Christian Parpart wrote:
> Hey, thanks, and now I also found this one:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dnsmasq/+bug/1006898
>
> which is exactly what I was talking about (interesting that I didn't
> find earlier).
>
> However, the last commenter says he's pulling it into precise "next
> days", but this is about 2 weeks ago. :-(
>

No, that was me, and I said I'd release 2.62 (upstream and Debian
packages, which I'm responsible for), and I did, on the 4th June.

Simon.