[Dnsmasq-discuss] Where does the complete dump go?

[richardvoigt at gmail.com]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Carlos Carvalho <carlos at fisica.ufpr.br>
wrote:

> Brad Morgan (b-morgan at concentric.net) wrote on 24 July 2008 14:15:
>  >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.
> [removed]
>  >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).
>
> If you turn logging off after solving it there's no problem in
> restarting dnsmasq without the cache. The benefit of the signal would
> be only to preserve the cache.


Evidently, it is turning logging *on* that presents the problem, because you
can get no information about the state of the cache before dnsmasq was
reloaded to enable logging.
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