Re: dnsmasq 2.71 for wheezy-backports
Hello guys,
are there any news on a possible dnsmasq >= 2.63 backport for wheezy? I’d still be interested, especially for better IPv6 support with libvirt.
Thank You!
> On 08 Sep 2014, at 23:23, Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On 07/08/14 15:02, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>> Markus Kasten <debian@markuskasten.eu> (2014-08-07):
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I'd like to propose a backport of dnsmasq 2.71 (or >= 2.63) for
>>> wheezy-backports.
>>> The version thats shipped with Debian Wheezy (2.62-3) is pretty old
>>> and does not support the --bind-dynamic option. This also kind of
>>> conflicts with the current libvirt-bin backport, which needs dnsmasq
>>>> = 2.63 for assigning publicly routable IPv6 addresses to guests.
>>> There are probably a bunch of other reasons for backporting it, but
>>> these are the arguments I came up with.
>>>
>>> If there's no one responsible for dnsmasq backports, I'd be happy to
>>> create one (although I haven't done that before :).
>>
>> Hi Markus,
>>
>> it's usually a good idea to put the maintainers in the loop. They might
>> have valuable input, be interested by your joining their team, and
>> committing your work to $VCS (among other things).
>>
>> Mraw,
>> KiBi.
>>
>
> Happy to assist with getting a backport done. I'd like, if possible, to
> see a 2.71 backport with DNSSEC support enabled.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon.
>
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