Debian 9 dnsmasq start failure

root@kanga:~# systemctl status dnsmasq.service
● dnsmasq.service - dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dnsmasq.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: start-limit-hit) since Wed 2017-08-30 12:15:24 CEST; 1min 13s ago
  Process: 2295 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/dnsmasq systemd-stop-resolvconf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 2107 ExecStartPost=/etc/init.d/dnsmasq systemd-start-resolvconf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 2099 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/dnsmasq systemd-exec (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 2096 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/dnsmasq --test (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 2106 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Aug 30 12:15:24 kanga systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'.
Aug 30 12:15:25 kanga systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Aug 30 12:15:25 kanga systemd[1]: Failed to start dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server.
Aug 30 12:15:25 kanga systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'.
Aug 30 12:15:26 kanga systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Aug 30 12:15:26 kanga systemd[1]: Failed to start dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server.
Aug 30 12:15:26 kanga systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'.
Aug 30 12:15:27 kanga systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Aug 30 12:15:27 kanga systemd[1]: Failed to start dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server.
Aug 30 12:15:27 kanga systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'.