[Dnsmasq-discuss] Problem with OpenWRT + dnsmasq

richardvoigt at gmail.com richardvoigt at gmail.com
Thu Sep 20 19:24:59 BST 2012


On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Juhani Talvela <Juhani.Talvela at kyamk.fi> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry, but there is just this one PC connected to the router LAN port.
>
> When dnsmasq is running, there is a huge number of connections all aimed at the ISP nameservers with port 53. If the mailing list allows images, you can see the connection and traffic loads attached, here.
>
> When I stop dnsmasq, all connections are dropped and no excess traffic is visible.

It could be a program running on the router itself, if the router is
configured (think /etc/resolv.conf) to use dnsmasq for name lookup.


>
> Wonder if I should stop using dnsmasq and go for dhcpcd, instead?
>
> Cheers
> Juhani
>
>
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> Juhani Talvela
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>
>>>> "richardvoigt at gmail.com" <richardvoigt at gmail.com> 17.9.2012 3:55 >>>
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Juhani Talvela <Juhani.Talvela at kyamk.fi> wrote:
>> I have a Netgear 3800 router running OpenWRT (earlier 10.03.1 and now 12.09-beta version). I upgraded because there was and is a seriour problem. When dnsmasq is running I have a constant load on my router processor of about 20-50%. Additionally, there is a constant download load on my WAN of about 8-12 Mbps ( I have a 20 Mbps Internet connection).
>>
>> This phenomenon results to halting of all other internet traffic. No web pages are loaded, no mail is retreived or sent...
>>
>> The problem stops at once, when I kill the dnsmasq process. Of course, I then need to have a fixed IP, netmask, router and DNS on the PC. But then I can access the internet, at least.
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> It sounds as if there is another computer (possibly unauthorized) on
> your network which is generating the traffic.  Since you aren't
> putting a static IP or DNS configuration on that other computer,
> wherever it may be, it doesn't work when dnsmasq isn't running.  But
> the problem is not dnsmasq itself.
>
>
>



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