Slackware 14.0 dnsmasq start error
 

I'm using dnsmasq for DHCP services on my network at home. Whenever I start the service, I get an error stating:

"failed to create listening socket for port 53 address already in use"

I'm using the command "/etc/rc.d/rc.dnsmasq start" to launch it.

Where am I going wrong here?

well as the message very clearly states, something is already using that port. Maybe DNSMasq itself? try stopping it first. If not, check what is using it with "netstat -plnu"

It looks like DNS is already using that port. I'll try stopping it and then start up dnsmasq.