[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq forwards requests for unknown hosts in its own domain

Edson - Lists 4lists at gmail.com
Wed Nov 11 11:48:48 GMT 2009


Maybe this hints could help You:
1) make sure that dnsmasq on nat-router is listening on the right 
interfaces (just internal?)
2) arm syslog for all DNS queries and see from where they are coming.

Edson.

Gerrit Kühn escreveu:
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:13:01 +0100 Gerrit Kühn
> <gerrit at pmp.uni-hannover.de> wrote about Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq
> forwards requests for unknown hosts in its own domain:
> 
> GK> Nov 11 10:30:19 theq dnsmasq[97791]: query[PTR]
> GK> db._dns-sd._udp.0.64.168.192.in- addr.arpa from 10.117.15.254
> GK> Nov 11 10:30:19 theq dnsmasq[97791]: forwarded
> GK> db._dns-sd._udp.0.64.168.192.in-a ddr.arpa to 10.117.15.254
> 
> GK> These requests/forwards won't stop and put quite some load on dnsmasq
> GK> running on 10.117.15.254. 
> 
> Sorry, wrong hostname here. To make the situation clear:
> dnsmasq is running on two hosts:
> 
> theq (10.117.1.254) <-> nat-router (10.117.15.254 / 192.168.64.254)
> 
> I do not know where the requests for 192.168.64.0 stem from, but dnsmasq
> running on the nat-router forwards them to dnsmasq on theq.
> 
> 
> cu
>   Gerrit
> 
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