> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
> From: "john doe" <johndoe65...@mail.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Virtual network fails to start: SOLVED
>
> On 1/15/25 00:09, Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 12:00:22 -0700
> > Charles Curley <charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote:
> >
> >> dnsmasq: failed to create listening socket for 192.168.122.1: Address
> >> already in use
> >
> > I've identified the problem. I have bind9 running on the problematic
> > host but not the host where things worked. Apparently as soon as
> > libvirt would create the host's interface for the network, bind grabbed
> > it, precluding dnsmasq from doing so.
> >
> > Shutting down bind9 allowed me to solve that problem. Now to dig into
> > the bind 9 documentation and make it a bit less greedy.
> >
>
> Question is, why do you need Bind9 on this host in the first place!
>
If properly configured then bind isn't an issue
