[Dnsmasq-discuss] conf-dir load order and strict-order directive
Salatiel Filho
salatiel.filho at gmail.com
Tue Feb 11 00:44:28 GMT 2020
I am trying to understand the behaviour of conf-dir parameter.
Although I am running dnsmasq inside openwrt, this is more a dnsmasq
question than openwrt question.
I have conf-dir=/tmp/dnsmasq.d
This directory CAN contain files or not. The files, when exists, are
created by the init scripts of two other services (nextdns and
stubby)
When nextdns it creates 20-nextdns.conf and send a SIGHUP to dnsmasq (
reload ). The content of the conf file is:
# cat /var/dnsmasq.d/20-nextdns.conf
server=127.0.0.1#5342
strict-order
no-resolv
>From this moment on , the new requests will use nextdns server as
upstream (127.0.0.1 port 5432) as expected.
Now if I start the stubby service, it will create
/var/dnsmasq.d/30-stubby.conf and reload dnsmasq.
# cat /var/dnsmasq.d/30-stubby.conf
server=127.0.0.1#5453
strict-order
no-resolv
Now we have two files inside the conf-dir.
Question number 1: Since we have strict-order, what server should be
used? The one from the 20-nextdns.conf or the one from 30-stubby.conf
? I suppose the order is alphabetical, right ?
Now comes the odd part. If I stop nextdns, the init script will delete
the /var/dnsmasq.d/20-nextdns.conf and reload dnsmasq. As expected,
the only upstream server will be the one from 30-stubby.conf (
127.0.0.1#5453 ). BUT if i start nextdns again, it will create the
/var/dnsmasq.d/20-nextdns.conf again and reload dnsmasq again. But
now, dnsmasq will not start using the dns from 20-nextdns.conf (
127.0.0.1#5342 ). It will keep using the DNS from 30-stubby.conf (
127.0.0.1#5453).
Question 2: Shouldn't dnsmasq on reload respect the strict-order and
start using the dns from 20-nextdns.conf instead of keeping using the
one from 30-stubby.conf ?
Thanks!
Atenciosamente/Kind regards,
Salatiel
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