dnsmasq failed to start up with a "bad option" error.

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Issue

  • dnsmasq failed to start up with a "bad option" error.

  • The journal log shows messages like below.

    Jun 05 20:23:20 rhel8u8-1 dnsmasq[32180]: dnsmasq: bad option at line 686 of /etc/dnsmasq.conf
Jun 05 20:23:20 rhel8u8-1 dnsmasq[32180]: bad option at line 686 of /etc/dnsmasq.conf
Jun 05 20:23:20 rhel8u8-1 dnsmasq[32180]: FAILED to start up
Jun 05 20:23:20 rhel8u8-1 systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jun 05 20:23:20 rhel8u8-1 systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • dnsmasq

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