[Dnsmasq-discuss] Listening on 0.0.0.0 and using bind-interfaces

[Simon Kelley]

On 20/12/2019 16:17, Kasper Grubbe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently trying to investigate some issues that I am seeing in the
> logs:
> dnsmasq: Maximum number of concurrent DNS queries reached (max: 150) 
> 
> This is my configuration:
> server=/consul/127.0.0.1#8600 <http://127.0.0.1#8600>
> listen-address=0.0.0.0
> bind-interfaces
> 
> Some people suggested the error can happen when those two options are
> used together, since that configuration can generate a
> loop: https://github.com/eBayClassifiedsGroup/PanteraS/commit/9c73512ec86c4d20dc92bce97265475680d2cf57
> 
> I couldn't find anything in the man pages saying that this is dangerous,
> so do you think that it should be added? Or maybe add a warning in the log.
> 
> Br.
> --

Setting --log-queries should make it very clear if there's a loop.

What are you attempting to achieve with that config? They would seem to
cancel each other out.


Cheers,

Simon.