Hi Chris On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 11:34:31AM +0100, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote: > On Monday, 11 May 2020 11:07:55 BST Marco van Beek via GLLUG wrote: >>> Openvpn should not be grabbing port 53 unless you are using a custom >>> config for it. The default setup for openvpn is UDP 1194. Some people >>> do use port 53 UDP for VPn because it allows you to tunnel through, >>> but you have just seen what havoc that can bring. > Hello Marco, > Thanks for the reply. Yes, I had configured openvpn to use UDP port > 1194 and was trying to get it working, with port 1194 enabled > through the firewall. Then I re-booted and everything stopped, with > dnsmasq complaining that port 53 was already taken so would not > start, until I removed openvpn. I did not find any other reason why > there was a problem, and I would like to try again with openvpn if I > can still get dnsmasq to run. <snip>
To see what is listening on port 53 you can run something like: sudo netstat -vnutlp | grep ':53[[:blank:]]' It maybe that something else is listening on that port on one or more of the network interfaces. -- #---------------------------------------------------------# | John Edwards Email: j...@cornerstonelinux.co.uk | #---------------------------------------------------------# -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug