[Dnsmasq-discuss] Re: Possible instability of DNS in 2.45

[Rune Kock]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 02:30, Rune Kock <rune.kock at gmail.com> wrote:
> After running fine for over a week, my router with dnsmasq 2.45 became
> very unwilling to answer DNS queries (only a few succeeded).  Dumping
> the statistics showed that a significant number of upstream queries
> had failed.  Restarting the router solved the problem.

Thanks for the bug-hunting ideas, Simon and David.

It turns out that my remote logging was horribly broken.  (I wasn't
aware that the machine receiving the log-entries would do a reverse
dns-lookup to the router for every entry received -- and on the router
I had enabled logging of all incoming connections!).

With this kind of craziness going on, it seems very unlikely that
dnsmasq was the cause of the problems.  Really, what puzzles me the
most is that things did actually work for some time.

So my apologies for wasting your time.  I have fixed the logging, and
everything seems to be running perfectly now.


Rune