Troels Arvin wrote:
Hello,
I generally try to minimize the number of daemons running on my servers,
especially daemons listening on network sockets.
dnsmasq does not listen on your physical network sockets. It only
listens on "virbr0" virtual interface that can NAT network connections
from guests to Dom0. So anything except dom0 and guests can't access the
service.
On a (dom0-)server set up for running paravirtualized Xen guests, I find
that something starts dnsmasq after boot, even though the service has
been turned off (with chkconfig).
It's libvirtd that starts dnsmasq.
I tried removing the dnsmasq package, but it seems to be required by the
libvirt package (which I assume is rather important on a dom0
installation). Hence, my guess is that it's some Xen script/daemon which
starts dnsmasq.
Turning off dnsmasq, and then restarting the xen guests doesn't seem to
be a problem.
My questions:
- Under which circumstance(s) is dnsmasq important for running
xen guests?
It's only required if you want to configure your guests in a private
network and nat the packets to the outside network which is the
preferred configuration for laptops.
- Can I somehow prevent xen from starting dnsmasq, now that
a "chkconfig --level 345 dnsmasq off" doesn't help?
I am not aware of anything except a killall dnsmasq in rc.local, but
dnsmasq is not listening on the public interface of dom0 for anything.
It only listens on virbr0 and servers only the dns packets from guests.
--Sadique
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