Public bug reported: I didn't see any application listening on the dns port in udp and I was able to install pdnsd.
Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric) $ sudo apt-get install dnsproxy Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: dnsproxy 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/16.6 kB of archives. After this operation, 131 kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously deselected package dnsproxy. (Reading database ... 48927 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking dnsproxy (from .../dnsproxy_1.16-0.1build1_amd64.deb) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up dnsproxy (1.16-0.1build1) ... * Starting dnsproxy dnsproxy unable to bind socket: Cannot assign requested address ...fail! invoke-rc.d: initscript dnsproxy, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing dnsproxy (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: dnsproxy E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ** Affects: dnsproxy (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/955014 Title: dnsproxy won't install on Oneiric : unable to bind socket: Cannot assign requested address To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dnsproxy/+bug/955014/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs