Comment 89 for bug 959037

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Thomas Hood (jdthood) wrote :

Relevant to my question above:
> What would be the best way to implement this, Simon?

is what Simon wrote in #928524 comment #12:
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I'm wondering about adding a _third_ mode, which is has a desirable
mixture of the properties of the current two (--bind-interfaces and NOT
--bind-interfaces). Essentially, dnsmasq would bind the addresses of
individual interfaces rather than the wildcard address, making it less
of a bully for other dnsmasq instances or DNS servers, but it would use
netlink to track the creation of new interfaces or the addition of new
addresses to existing interfaces, and automatically bind them as
required. This mode is inherently Linux-specific, since it needs netlink
to work.

You could either just use it as the default, or as a less problematic
alternative to --bind-interfaces to be dropped into the system dnsmasq
by networkmanager.
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