On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > libvirt's dnsmasq will never be grabbing any 127.0.0.1 address. It is >> In my experiments it did not, and the issue instead was that the other >> DNS server [1] wanted to grab port 53 on *all* interfaces. > > Yeah, that is the normal problem people see. The default dnsmasq > configuration is to bind to all interfaces, which obviously blocks > libvirt. other DNS local servers may also exhibit the same problem > of binding to all interfaces, and need to be configured to only > bind to specific ones. > >> [1] In my case that was a second instance of dnsmasq, and I had to set >> --interface=lo and --bind-interfaces. unbound and bind both only grab 127.0.0.1:53 and ::1:53 on their default installs. So it looks like this problem has been solved or went away. Thanks for the answers everyone! Paul -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel