<div dir="ltr">I strongly suggest you test it from your login shell first, to separate problems in the approach from problems in the cron environment.<div><br></div><div>Run 'ps' to see how many dnsmasq processes you have. If there's more than one, then 'pidof' won't be as useful. Most startup scripts write the PID of the master process into a pidfile which you can use later, to avoid the "which of many dnsmasq processes do I signal?" problem.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Eric Vance <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:epvance@gmail.com" target="_blank">epvance@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">That is very possible. Good suggestion. Does anyone have any suggestion of how I should SIGHUP dnsmasq? <div>
I've tried these without much luck:</div><div><br></div><div><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;max-height:600px;width:auto;background-color:rgb(238,238,238);margin-bottom:10px;padding:5px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px;font-size:14px;overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif;margin-top:0px;border:0px">
<code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif">kill -1 `pidof dnsmasq`;</code></pre>
<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;max-height:600px;width:auto;background-color:rgb(238,238,238);margin-bottom:10px;padding:5px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px;font-size:14px;overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif;margin-top:0px;border:0px">
<code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif">kill -9 `pidof dnsmasq`;</code></pre>
<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;max-height:600px;width:auto;background-color:rgb(238,238,238);margin-bottom:10px;padding:5px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px;font-size:14px;overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif;margin-top:0px;border:0px">
<code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif">kill -HUP `pidof dnsmasq`;</code></pre>
<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;max-height:600px;width:auto;background-color:rgb(238,238,238);margin-bottom:10px;padding:5px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px;font-size:14px;overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif;margin-top:0px;border:0px">
<code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif">kill -SIGHUP `pidof dnsmasq`;</code></pre>
<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;max-height:600px;width:auto;background-color:rgb(238,238,238);margin-bottom:10px;padding:5px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px;font-size:14px;overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif;margin-top:0px;border:0px">
<code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif">/etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart;</code></pre>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>I even put a 5 second sleep after the HUP to try to give it time to start back up.</div><div><br></div><div>Ideas?</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
<br></div><div>Eric</div></font></span><div><div class="h5">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:19 AM, <a href="mailto:richardvoigt@gmail.com" target="_blank">richardvoigt@gmail.com</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richardvoigt@gmail.com" target="_blank">richardvoigt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">From your symptoms, I believe you aren't sending SIGHUP correctly, and dnsmasq picks up the change after a minute due to its /etc/hosts polling.<div>
<br></div><div>dnsmasq uses multiple processes when seteuid behavior is enabled, so you might be signalling the wrong one.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Eric Vance <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:epvance@gmail.com" target="_blank">epvance@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="clear:both;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,'Liberation Sans','DejaVu Sans',sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em;word-wrap:break-word;border:0px;padding:0px">
I'm using dnsmasq on an OpenWRT Router. </p><p style="clear:both;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,'Liberation Sans','DejaVu Sans',sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em;word-wrap:break-word;border:0px;padding:0px">
I have the following set in /etc/dnsmasq.conf:</p><pre style="max-height:600px;width:auto;background-color:rgb(238,238,238);margin-bottom:10px;padding:5px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px;font-size:14px;overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif;margin-top:0px;border:0px">
<code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif">local-ttl=0
cache-size=0
</code></pre><p style="clear:both;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,'Liberation Sans','DejaVu Sans',sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em;word-wrap:break-word;border:0px;padding:0px">
I believe that tells the client not to cache the dns (which I've confirmed) and it tells dnsmasq to not cache responses. </p><p style="clear:both;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,'Liberation Sans','DejaVu Sans',sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em;word-wrap:break-word;border:0px;padding:0px">
Let's say I have this entry in my /etc/hosts file:</p><p style="clear:both;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,'Liberation Sans','DejaVu Sans',sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em;word-wrap:break-word;border:0px;padding:0px">
</p><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;padding:5px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(238,238,238);font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif;overflow:auto;width:auto;max-height:600px">
<code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif"> 192.168.1.1 <a href="http://mydomain.com" target="_blank">mydomain.com</a>
</code></pre><div><code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif">I have a cron job that changes this entry to this:</code></div>
<div><code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif"><br>
</code></div><div><code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif"><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;padding:5px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(238,238,238);font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif;overflow:auto;width:auto;max-height:600px">
<code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif"> 192.168.1.44 <a href="http://mydomain.com" target="_blank">mydomain.com</a>
</code></pre><div><code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif">After the entry is changed in the hosts file I run this to hup:</code></div>
</code></div><p></p><pre style="max-height:600px;width:auto;background-color:rgb(238,238,238);margin-bottom:10px;padding:5px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px;font-size:14px;overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif;margin-top:0px;border:0px">
<code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif"> kill -1 `pidof dnsmasq`;
</code></pre><p style="clear:both;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,'Liberation Sans','DejaVu Sans',sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em;word-wrap:break-word;border:0px;padding:0px">
>From my testing, after I change the ip and run the hup it takes about 30 - 60 seconds until the domain resolves to 192.168.1.44. So, even after I make the change the name still resolves to 192.168.1.1 for a minute. </p>
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What am I doing wrong? Is there a better way to do this? Is there a better way to Hup? Am I missing an important setting? Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!</p><p style="clear:both;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,'Liberation Sans','DejaVu Sans',sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em;word-wrap:break-word;border:0px;padding:0px">
Thanks!</p><span><font color="#888888"><p style="clear:both;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,'Liberation Sans','DejaVu Sans',sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em;word-wrap:break-word;border:0px;padding:0px">
Eric</p>
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