[Dnsmasq-discuss] Listing the current DNS servers and domain prefixes?

[Simon Kelley]

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Whenever the set of ipstream servers changes, (because
/etc/resolv.conf got re-read, or a DBus method go invoked,or whatever,
then dnsmasq logs the complete list of all the upstream servers, and
the dns suffixes they handle.


Cheers,

Simon.


On 10/10/15 22:59, Steve Ash wrote:
> I use linux mint on my laptop with resolvconf and dnsmasq for doing
> dns resolution. When I connect to my vpn the NetworkManager updates
> dnsmasq via dbus with the vpn dns servers.
> 
> I can use nmcli dev list to see the wifi dhcp DNS ips and i can
> send SIGUSR1 to get some output from dnsmasq about upstream
> servers.
> 
> When I read about ubuntu/mints use of dnsmasq with VPNs I read that
> they send the dns search suffix so that dnsmasq only uses the vpn's
> DNS for requests to things in that domain.
> 
> Does the SIGUSR1 output _all_ of the DNS servers that dnsmasq knows
> about? When I run it after connecting to my VPN I only see my VPN
> DNS servers.  I know this isn't a dnsmasq problem but in trying to
> diagnose the problem I find myself wanting to query dnsmasq for all
> of its upstream DNS servers. Since it goes over dbus I dont get a
> good picture from resolvconf config.
> 
> If SIGUSR1 doesn't curently output this then I would like to file
> a suggestion that it include all upstream servers and what dns
> suffixes they are configured for as that would help this situation
> I think.
> 
> Thanks so much! Steve
> 
> 
> 
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