Comment 49 for bug 959037

On 11/06/12 20:41, Thomas Hood wrote:
> Aha, I had tried this and it didn't work... in version 2.57. But I see
> that quantal already has 2.62.
>
>> Another instance of dnsmasq will run without interfering with that,
> providing only that --bind-interfaces is set.
>
> Just to make sure I understand correctly: Do you mean here that --bind-
> interfaces has to be set on both instances of dnsmasq? Or will one
> instance (the NM-controlled one) with --bind-interfaces coexist nicely
> with another (the standalone dnsmasq) which doesn't use that option and
> listens on 0.0.0.0?

It has to be set in both instances of dnsmasq.

dnsmasq started as a system daemon reads config from

/etc/dnsmasq.d/*

so dropping a file there containing "bind-interfaces" and doing the
relevant restart in postinst should make this automatic in most cases.

>
> NM already runs dnsmasq with --bind-interfaces and --listen-address
> (specifically, --listen-address=127.0.0.1) so we would only be changing
> the address.
>
> Mathieu mentioned earlier the possibility of using 127.0.1.1 which
> happens to be the address assigned (in /etc/hosts) to the system
> hostname on some (but not all) systems. Is there any advantage to using
> 127.0.1.1 as opposed to another 127.* address?
>

I don't think so: they're all equivalent.

Simon.