On Friday, May 11, 2012 06:16:44 AM Timothy Madden wrote: > How can such software be part of CentOS _base_ distribution ? Upstream put it there; CentOS simply replicates upstream's behavior (bug for bug compatibility is one of the distribution's goals, after all). You would need to file a bugzilla with upstream to get the behavior changed. As dnsmasq is shipped upstream (I just verified with my own upstream EL6 machine), it should be in a usable condition as shipped.