[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#703912: libvirt-bin: libvirt dnsmasq cannot be access from host by IP (e.g. split-horizon DNS including libvirt dns)

[Daniel Dickinson]

Package: libvirt-bin
Version: 1.0.3-1
Severity: normal

nslookup <vm-hostname> <isolated-network-ip>

fails to connect on the host even though it returns correct ip in VM clients on the isolated network.

This makes access DHCP clients from the host by name difficult since the names do not resolve even when using dnsmasq with a line like (that host dnsmasq works otherwise however, since it's only on loopback):

server=/vmnet/<isolated-network-ip>

I believe it may be related to the change to bind-dynamic.

Regards,

Daniel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libvirt-bin depends on:
ii  adduser             3.113+nmu3
ii  gettext-base        0.18.1.1-9
ii  libaudit0           1:1.7.18-1.1
ii  libavahi-client3    0.6.31-2
ii  libavahi-common3    0.6.31-2
ii  libblkid1           2.20.1-5.3
ii  libc6               2.13-38
ii  libcap-ng0          0.6.6-2
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.6.8-1
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1  2:1.02.74-6
ii  libgcrypt11         1.5.0-5
ii  libgnutls26         2.12.20-4
ii  libnetcf1           1:0.2.3-1
ii  libnl-3-200         3.2.7-4
ii  libnl-route-3-200   3.2.7-4
ii  libnuma1            2.0.8~rc4-1
ii  libparted0debian1   2.3-12
ii  libpcap0.8          1.3.0-1
ii  libpciaccess0       0.13.1-2
ii  libreadline6        6.2+dfsg-0.1
ii  libsasl2-2          2.1.25.dfsg1-6
ii  libudev0            175-7.1
ii  libvirt0            1.0.3-1
ii  libxenstore3.0      4.1.4-2
ii  libxml2             2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu1
ii  libyajl2            2.0.4-2
ii  logrotate           3.8.1-4

Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends:
ii  bridge-utils    1.5-6
ii  dmidecode       2.11-9
ii  dnsmasq-base    2.65-1
ii  ebtables        2.0.10.4-1
ii  gawk            1:4.0.1+dfsg-2.1
ii  iproute         20120521-3+b3
ii  iptables        1.4.14-3.1
ii  libxml2-utils   2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu1
ii  netcat-openbsd  1.105-7
ii  parted          2.3-12
ii  pm-utils        1.4.1-9
ii  qemu            1.1.2+dfsg-6a
ii  qemu-kvm        1.1.2+dfsg-6

Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests:
pn  auditd       <none>
ii  policykit-1  0.105-3
ii  radvd        1:1.8.5-1
pn  systemtap    <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/libvirt-guests changed:
ON_BOOT=start
ON_SHUTDOWN=suspend
PARALLEL_SHUTDOWN=3


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