[Dnsmasq-discuss] "--all-servers" always on?

[John Siu]

I see it doing it for every single request.

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 11:12 AM Simon Rettberg
<simon.rettberg at rz.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
>
> Am Mon, 9 Dec 2019 11:58:22 -0500
> schrieb John Siu <john.sd.siu at gmail.com>:
>
> dnsmasq sends queries to all servers occasionally to determine which
> one replies fastest, and then keeps using that one exclusively for a
> while. Do you see every single query sent to all servers, or just the
> first one after restarting dnsmasq?
>
> - Simon
>
> > OS: Ubuntu 18.04 with all updates
> > dnsmasq version: 2.79-1
> >
> > According to man page:
> >
> > --all-servers
> >     By default, when dnsmasq has more than one upstream server
> > available, it will send queries to just one server. Setting this flag
> > forces dnsmasq to send all queries to all available servers. The
> > reply  from  the  server which  answers first will be returned to the
> > original requester.
> >
> > I don't have that flag in command line or in the config file. However
> > with "log-queries=extra" in config file, I am seeing following:
> >
> > Dec 09 11:29:24 door dnsmasq[9403]: 3640 10.10.10.101/49351 query[A]
> > news.com from 10.10.10.101
> > Dec 09 11:29:24 door dnsmasq[9403]: 3640 10.10.10.101/49351 forwarded
> > news.com to 2001:1998:f00:2::1
> > Dec 09 11:29:24 door dnsmasq[9403]: 3640 10.10.10.101/49351 forwarded
> > news.com to 2001:1998:f00:1::1
> > Dec 09 11:29:24 door dnsmasq[9403]: 3640 10.10.10.101/49351 forwarded
> > news.com to 2606:4700:4700::1001
> > Dec 09 11:29:24 door dnsmasq[9403]: 3640 10.10.10.101/49351 forwarded
> > news.com to 2606:4700:4700::1111
> > Dec 09 11:29:24 door dnsmasq[9403]: 3640 10.10.10.101/49351 forwarded
> > news.com to 2001:4860:4860::8844
> > Dec 09 11:29:24 door dnsmasq[9403]: 3640 10.10.10.101/49351 forwarded
> > news.com to 2001:4860:4860::8888
> > Dec 09 11:29:24 door dnsmasq[9403]: 3640 10.10.10.101/49351 forwarded
> > news.com to 209.18.47.63
> > Dec 09 11:29:24 door dnsmasq[9403]: 3640 10.10.10.101/49351 forwarded
> > news.com to 209.18.47.62
> > Dec 09 11:29:24 door dnsmasq[9403]: 3640 10.10.10.101/49351 forwarded
> > news.com to 209.18.47.61
> > Dec 09 11:29:24 door dnsmasq[9403]: 3640 10.10.10.101/49351 forwarded
> > news.com to 1.0.0.1
> > Dec 09 11:29:24 door dnsmasq[9403]: 3640 10.10.10.101/49351 forwarded
> > news.com to 1.1.1.1
> > Dec 09 11:29:24 door dnsmasq[9403]: 3640 10.10.10.101/49351 forwarded
> > news.com to 8.8.4.4
> > Dec 09 11:29:24 door dnsmasq[9403]: 3640 10.10.10.101/49351 forwarded
> > news.com to 8.8.8.8
> > Dec 09 11:29:25 door dnsmasq[9403]: 3640 10.10.10.101/49351 reply
> > news.com is 35.190.79.82
> >
> > Is --all-servers behavior changed to default on? Is there a way to
> > revert it?
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > John Siu
>