Neutron DHCP Agent Fails to Start dnsmasq: "dnsmasq: bad command line options
Problem
- Instances spawned on networks that rely on the DHCP agent(s) which are affected are failing to obtain a DHCP lease.
- The pf9-neutron-dhcp-agent service is failing to spawn the dnsmasq process with the following printed in its log at /var/log/pf9/pf9-neutron-dhcp-agent.log.
Environment
- Platform9 Managed OpenStack - v3.11 and Higher
Cause
The dnsmasq package installed on the affected host(s) is incompatible with the version required by the neutron-dhcp-agent.
Resolution
- Install dnsmasq
2.76
or higher.
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