Woke up today to find a lack of connectivity/ip address. After some
digging through the logs, it looks like the DHCP server was working
within the first few moments of the router booting up, then sort of
died after dnsmasq was restarted.

While my apprentice eyes cannot figure the reason the DHCP server did
not come alive, they did notice that a root-spawned
"/usr/sbin/dnsmasq" process was missing. I suppose that one could
install a watchdog to make sure that this process is alive. Comments?

Attached is the relevant log explaining the situation.