[Dnsmasq-discuss] upstream server selection algorithm - bug?

Tue May 15 19:57:11 BST 2018

> On 15 May 2018, at 17:00, Dominik DL6ER <dl6er at dl6er.de> wrote:
> 
> Dear Kevin,
>> Obviously it has to at least try the others occasionally to check it’s made the correct choice.   But I’m seeing dnsmasq make the same request to *ALL* servers quite frequently and am curious as to why?
> 
> dnsmasq is trying all servers quite frequently, either every 50 queries or 10 seconds (whatever happens first) if I'm not mistaken. This fits well to your observation.
> 
> I changed this locally to checking every 1000 queries (or every 10 minutes) and this is working great (I compile dnsmasq from source).
> 
> Best,
> Dominik

Ahh, excellent Dominik,

Thank you - I’m looking through the source now :-)

Cheers,

Kevin
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