[Dnsmasq-discuss] Where does the complete dump go?
Brad Morgan
b-morgan at concentric.net
Thu Jul 24 21:15:46 BST 2008
After playing with dnsmasq log-queries for a while, I think there should be
a signal that dynamically toggles this option. Stopping and starting dnsmasq
doesn't work because it clears the cache and that's what I'm trying to
discover... Is the wrong answer coming out of cache or is it coming from the
DNS servers themselves and if so, which one if I have more than one to
choose from.
The particular problem I was having was that one of my email servers became
unreachable. This went on for quite a while and upon investigation, the IP
address for the server was wrong. I was using the OpenDNS servers and when
using their web tools to query, I got a different answer than what was being
returned to my client machine. I solved the problem at the time by going
back to the DNS servers provided by my ISP but this started the search for
how to get more information if it failed again.
I'd rather not leave log-queries on all the time as it generates lots of log
entries but I would like to turn it on when I have a problem (and off again
after resolving the issue).
Is this a reasonable request? Is there another way to accomplish this?
Regards,
Brad
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