[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq unresponsive to /etc/hosts queries during WAN network outages

[starlight at binnacle.cx]

Thanks Simon.  I ran some tests with --log-queries
and discovered that 'dnsmasq' is working
perfectly here.

What's been causing the trouble is that various
script-generated alarm-emails are failing to
queue to because 'sendmail' is seeing temporary
lookup failures on DNSBL queries to Spamhaus
and Barracuda.  I can fix this by adjusting
the 'sendmail' configuration to except local
network addresses from DNSBL lookups.

I started from the wrong assumption here.  Local
DNS lookups during network outages were a problem
at one point awhile ago.  Some change I made
along the way fixed that problem.

Thanks for your help.



At 05:24 PM 5/8/2012 +0100, Simon Kelley wrote:
>If my explanation is not the correct one, I'm at a
>loss to explain what you're seeing. It's certainly
>not by design. Using --log-queries to find out
>what dnsmasq thinks it's doing would still be a
>valid next step.