[Libvir] Alternate dnsmasq command line args ?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:29:08PM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 03:17 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Currently we launch dnsmasq with a command line looking like:
> > 
> >    dnsmasq --keep-in-foreground 
> >            --bind-interfaces
> >            --pid-file 
> >            --conf-file
> >            --except-interface lo
> >            --listen-address 192.168.122.1
> >            --dhcp-range 192.168.122.2,192.168.122.254
> > 
> > This causes DNSMASQ to listen on any network interface configured with
> > an IP address of '192.168.122.1', except for loopback. 
> > 
> > I know it would be kind of unusual, but it is possible two interface
> > might be both configured with the same address. I think it may be
> > safer if we explicitly tell it to use virbr0 instead eg
> > 
> >            --interface virbr0
> >            --except-interface lo 
> 
> 	Yep, that sounds good to me. I don't know why I didn't do it that way.

Ok, I'll do a patch for that.

> > I'm also not clear why we use --conf-file - we're not actually telling it
> > about any config file so this seems redundant ?
> 
> 	I'm basically telling it "don't use /etc/dnsmasq.conf" AFAIR. All
> configuration to it should be on the command line.

Ok that makes alot of sense - I was puzzled because the manpage seems to
suggest its compulsory to supply a filename :-)

Dan.
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