[Dnsmasq-discuss] address=/#/192.168.0.1 - does not work!

Nikita N. nikitan at operamail.com
Mon Dec 9 10:50:40 GMT 2013


Hi Albert :) what I wrote you is what in fact I *see* from Wireshark.
I see all traffic there, I see exactly when and where appears the frame
into at0, the DHCP and DNS request frames from me, the correct answers
from dnsmasq and the "silences" from dnsmasq :)
Any help?

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013, at 02:07 AM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> Le 09/12/2013 09:29, Nikita N. a écrit :
> > Hi All, its the first time for me on this maillist :)
> >
> > Im trying some tests with dnsmasq, but I cant make it work.. sorry :(
> > I dont know if its a bug.. or its just me missing something..
> >
> > So here what I want to do:
> > I created a tap ethernet interface (on wireless, because I have only
> > that, but thats not important I guess..).
> > I called at0, and I enabled it with "ifconfig at0 up 192.168.0.1 netmask
> > 255.255.255.0"
> > All works ok, I see the interface receive/transmit Ethernet frames, also
> > I see ip6 management frames around, and so on..
> > Now I want to provide DHCP and DNS functionality to at0, so I found
> > dnsmasq which "should" do both (isn't it?)
> >
> > So what are the requirements for dnsmasq: after providing an ip by DHCP,
> > every *every* page request by DNS must be answered 192.168.0.1.
> > In fact Im not providing any wan/internet connection at all, its just a
> > test, so e.g., if appears on at0 a DNS request for www.google.com,
> > dnsmasq must send *at-once* a DNS answer with 192.168.0.1 - always!
> >
> > Here my dnsmasq.conf:
> > no-hosts
> > no-resolv
> > no-poll
> > no-negcache
> > no-ping
> > address=/#/192.168.0.1
> > dhcp-range=192.168.0.2,192.168.0.254,255.255.255.0,12h
> > interface=at0
> >
> > .. unfortunately it doesnt work.. :(
> > The following is not working:
> > 1) when appears on at0 a DHCP "request" as first, without the "discover"
> > first, no answer comes! it *always* happens that after the first
> > connection, my network does not send the any "discover" anymore, dnsmasq
> > no answer, so my network sends a ARP gratuitous, but still dnsmasq keeps
> > silent.. if a "discover" comes on at0, then ok, dnsmasq sends answer
> > ACK.. but I repeat, it very rare that my network sends a "discover", so
> > I need dnsmasq to always answer DHCP ACK anyway!
> >
> > 2) when appears on at0 a DNS request for any website, www.google.com,
> > just any, dnsmasq keeps silent, no answer.. after repeated requests,
> > maybe after half hour repeated requests, then dnsmasq finally decides to
> > answer correctly with DNS answer=192.168.0.1.. but only after half hour!
> > thats unacceptable..
> >
> > Any help? Thanks :)
> 
> I would suggest that you run tcpdump on the same machine where dnsmasq 
> is running in order to see what DHCP traffic the machine itself sees. 
> That'll help determine where the request is dropped exactly.
> 
> Amicalement,
> -- 
> Albert.
> 
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