[Dnsmasq-discuss] Finding actual DNS server used

[Weedy]

On 15 January 2017 at 03:21, Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Le Sat, 14 Jan 2017 19:27:28 +0000
> Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> a écrit:
>
> (re getting dnsmasq to say which upstream servers it uses)
>
>> Why is is so difficult to provide this information?  At the very least
>> it would provide a confidence check that all is working as intended.
>> It might very well help if something isn't working too.
>
> It is not difficult at all to get this information. It's just that
> dnsmasq does not provide any "API" to get it, because it's easy to get
> it  otherwise for diagnosis purposes.

http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq-man.html#lbAG

An API of sorts was added some time last year