[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#592177: Bug#592177: reproduce without dnsmasq

[Guido Günther]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 05:27:37PM -0400, Michael Swierczek wrote:
> I still get the same error message, and I never had dnsmasq installed.
>   amd64, libvirt-bin 0.8.3-2
> 
> virsh net-start default
> error: Failed to start network default
> error: internal error '/sbin/iptables --table filter --delete INPUT
> --in-interface virbr0 --protocol udp --destination-port 69 --jump
> ACCEPT' exited with non-zero status 1 and signal 0: iptables: Bad rule
> (does a matching rule exist in that chain?).
> 
> I installed dnsmasq, ran
> killall dnsmasq
> And then
> virsh net-start default
> virsh net-destroy default
> virsh net-start default
> 
> All three commands worked properly.  Is that expected?   If I am
Yes. You do need dnsmasq-base installed. That's why it's recommended by
the libvirt-bin package. Without that one NAT networking won't work
properly (but all the rest does, that's why it's not a hard dependency).
Cheers,
 -- Guido

> supplying known or useless information, I apologize for wasting your
> time.