[Dnsmasq-discuss] Mysterious dnsmasq 2.38 'hangs'

[Simon Kelley]

Further to my syslog-deadlock theory, Google came up with this, which is 
old, but looks plausible.

https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2002-March/003101.html

What do you have in /etc/nsswitch.conf on the machine running dnsmasq? 
given that syslog has to lookup it's own address using gethostbyaddr(), 
and that all the aliases should be in /etc/hosts, then one could imagine 
that having

hosts:          files dns

would be good, but having

hosts:          dns files

would be bad.

Cheers,

Simon.