[Dnsmasq-discuss] Finding actual DNS server used

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Hi Lars,

Le Sat, 14 Jan 2017 14:40:14 +0200
Lars Noodén <lars.nooden at gmail.com> a écrit:

> How can I get an already running instance of Dnsmasq to tell which DNS
> servers it is using to resolve new queries upstream?
> 
> Specifically how can this be done in distros like Ubuntu and Linux
> Mint, which have setups like this::
> 
> # cat /etc/resolv.conf
> # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by
> resolvconf(8)
> #     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE
> OVERWRITTEN nameserver 127.0.1.1
> 
> 
> # ps auxw |grep dnsmasq
> nobody    2711  0.0  0.0  31028  3276 ?        S    13:27   0:00
> /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --no-resolv --keep-in-foreground --no-hosts
> --bind-interfaces
> --pid-file=/run/sendsigs.omit.d/network-manager.dnsmasq.pid
> --listen-address=127.0.1.1
> --conf-file=/var/run/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.conf --cache-size=0
> --proxy-dnssec --enable-dbus=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.dnsmasq
> --conf-dir=/etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d
> 
> I've not spotted anything in the manual page that stands out for that
> purpose.

There is not much point for it, is there? I mean, if dnsmasq has
upstream servers (possibly per request domain) and acts as a local
server, it is so that DNS clients on the LAN do *not* have to know
these upstream servers.

Or maybe I am missing something. What is your use case?

> Regards,
> Lars

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.