Rich Grise wrote:
> While booting my brand new 11.0 system on the brand new box, I get this
> message:
>
> dnsmasq: failed to create listening socket: Address already in use
>
> and I have no idea what it means. I'm pretty sure this is the first
> release that I've ever even heard of such a thing - didn't it used to be
> iptables?

I certainly isn't new to slack 11.

Here on a slack 10.2:

kees@pcict9:~$ locate dnsmasq
/var/log/packages/dnsmasq-2.23-i486-1
/var/log/scripts/dnsmasq-2.23-i486-1
/var/log/removed_packages/dnsmasq-2.8-i486-1-upgraded-2005-02-16,19:55:05
/var/log/removed_packages/dnsmasq-2.20-i486-1-upgraded-2005-07-26,12:48:37
/var/log/removed_packages/dnsmasq-2.22-i486-1-upgraded-2005-09-29,19:14:58
/var/log/removed_scripts/dnsmasq-2.8-i486-1-upgraded-2005-02-16,19:55:05
/var/log/removed_scripts/dnsmasq-2.20-i486-1-upgraded-2005-07-26,12:48:37
/var/log/removed_scripts/dnsmasq-2.22-i486-1-upgraded-2005-09-29,19:14:58
/var/state/dnsmasq
/usr/man/man8/dnsmasq.8.gz
/usr/doc/dnsmasq-2.23
/usr/doc/dnsmasq-2.23/FAQ
/usr/doc/dnsmasq-2.23/CHANGELOG
/usr/doc/dnsmasq-2.23/UPGRADING_to_2.0
/usr/doc/dnsmasq-2.23/setup.html
/usr/doc/dnsmasq-2.23/doc.html
/usr/doc/dnsmasq-2.23/COPYING
/usr/sbin/dnsmasq
/etc/rc.d/rc.dnsmasq
/etc/dnsmasq.conf

and:

kees@pcict9:~$ cat /var/log/packages/dnsmasq-2.23-i486-1
PACKAGE NAME: dnsmasq-2.23-i486-1
COMPRESSED PACKAGE SIZE: 108 K
UNCOMPRESSED PACKAGE SIZE: 250 K
PACKAGE LOCATION: n/dnsmasq-2.23-i486-1.tgz
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
dnsmasq: dnsmasq (small DNS and DHCP server)
dnsmasq:
dnsmasq: Dnsmasq is a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP
dnsmasq: server. It is designed to provide DNS (and optionally DHCP) to a
dnsmasq: small network, and can serve the names of local machines which
are not
dnsmasq: in the global DNS.
dnsmasq:
dnsmasq: Dnsmasq was written by Simon Kelley.
dnsmasq:
dnsmasq:
dnsmasq:
[ snip ]


Looks like you'r trying to start two different nameservers or dhcp
servers.

Kees.

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Kees Theunissen.