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  1. Bug #1126488
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1126488

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Simon Kelley (simon-thekelleys) wrote : Re: [Bug 1126488] Re: libvirt instance of dnsmasq in raring fails to forward DNS requests

On 15/02/13 18:52, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 06:35:40PM -0000, Simon Kelley wrote:
>> On 15/02/13 18:00, Steve Langasek wrote:
>>> Public bug reported:
>
>>> On a raring system, the dnsmasq instance spawned by libvirt is not
>>> forwarding DNS requests to the upstream resolver. dnsmasq is run as:
>>> /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --conf-file=/var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/default.conf
>> Steve, what version of dnsmasq is exhibiting the bug?
>
> The raring version, 2.65-1.
>
> I've just installed a test package from
> https://launchpad.net/~mdeslaur/+archive/testing per Seth Arnold's
> suggestion on IRC, which appears to resolve the issue. According to Seth,
> that implies this is probably linked to
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=894486>.
>
>
> ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #894486
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=894486
>

That's possible, but the fix for RedHat involves subtracting from the
set of queries which get answered, not adding to it, so that doesn't
quite fit the description.

Simon.