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port 53: Address already in use when installing Streisand on Ubuntu 20.04

port 53: Address already in use when installing Streisand on Ubuntu 20.04

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Henri Cook
Jun 26, 2020·

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Whilst installing Streisand on Ubuntu 20.04 I came across this error related to dnsmasq. Luckily it's simple to solve.

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See what's listening:

sudo netstat -tulpn | grep ":53 "

There's something hogging our port! Result:

tcp        0      0 127.0.0.53:53           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      582/systemd-resolve 
udp        0      0 127.0.0.53:53           0.0.0.0:*                           582/systemd-resolve

Kill this out of the box Ubuntu service:

# sudo systemctl disable systemd-resolved
Removed /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/systemd-resolved.service.
Removed /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service.
# sudo systemctl stop systemd-resolved

Since you've nuked the built in DNS service head over to /etc/resolv.conf and change nameserver 127.0.0.53 to something else, such as your local router's IP or 8.8.8.8 (Google) or 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare).

Retry streisand install, done