FS#690 - dnsmasq 2.3 has a critical DHCP /etc/ethers bug

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Paul Mattal (paul) - Sunday, 04 April 2004, 21:18 GMT
Last edited by Dale Blount (dale) - Monday, 05 April 2004, 20:50 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Eric Johnson (eric)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

dnsmasq 2.3 does not parse /etc/ethers files properly.

As a result, one will tear ones hair out for hours trying to figure out what configuration items you have wrong that are causing machines with fixed addresses to get ones from the dynamic pool, when in fact the answer is that none of them is wrong.

This can be easily fixed by simply upgrading to the newest version (2.6) of dnsmasq.

Check the attachments section for the modified PKGBUILD. All I had to do is up the version number and change the md5sum.

As maintainer, it seems as though Eric Johnson <eric@archlinux.org> is the man for the job.

Otherwise, I should say that dnsmasq rocks! Lightweight is your friend in the world of (simple) DNS.

- P
(application/octet-stream)    PKGBUILD (0.8 KiB)
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Closed by  Eric Johnson (eric)
Tuesday, 06 April 2004, 12:21 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Eric Johnson (eric) - Tuesday, 06 April 2004, 12:21 GMT
updated to dnsmasq-2.6

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