dnsmasq issue

[fairoozfarhan]

“I encountered an issue while configuring dnsmasq. The service fails to start, and I’m receiving the error: Failed to start dnsmasq.service - dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server.”

[Tom Elliott]

@fairoozfarhan looking at a glance I think your dhcp-range line is incorrect:

I believe it should be:

dhcp-range=192.168.11.2,192.168.15.254,12h

[george1421]

@fairoozfarhan You didn’t mention what you are trying to do with the swiss army knife called dnsmasq. If you are trying to configure a proxy dhcp server the configuration listed in this tutorial will get you started: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/12796/installing-dnsmasq-on-your-fog-server If you want to use that dnsmasq server for a dhcp and or dns server you need a bit more data in your configuration.

Usually when dnsmasq fails to start there is a service already using a port it needs to start. Like DNS or DHCP. There may be a log file in /var/log

[fairoozfarhan]

@george1421 Thanks its working