dnsmasq not starting from NetworkManager with SELinux enabled.

2013-03-16 1 min read Fedora Learning Linux
OpenWrt – Dnsmasq (Photo credit: magicfab) Some time back I posted on dnsmasq starting from Network Manager and how to setup dnsmasq. Now, couple of days back , I setup dnsmasq in NetworkManager but was astonished to see that there was no dnsmasq running. I checked with dig and saw that there was no response from localhost for dns queries. Checked “ps -eaf|grep dns” and found that there was no dnsmasq running. Continue reading

dnsmasq – use with Network Manager.

2013-01-28 2 min read Fedora Learning Linux
Niles Machine Company (Photo credits: roadtrafficsigns.com) Well if you have not heard about dnsmasq: Dnsmasq is lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server. It is designed to provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a small network. It can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS. The DHCP server integrates with the DNS server and allows machines with DHCP-allocated addresses to appear in the DNS with names configured Continue reading