[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq forwards "localhost" queries to upstream servers

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 15.10.20 14:17, SALA MASSIMO wrote:
>This files are the configuration:
>/etc/hosts
>127.0.0.1       localhost localhost.example.local postgresqldb postgresqldb.example.local
>
>dnsmasq.conf
># don't read /etc/resolv.conf
>no-resolv
>domain=example.local,10.0.0.0/8
>domain-needed
>server=/example.local/10.1.1.1
>server=/example.local/10.1.1.2
>server=/10.in-addr.arpa/10.1.1.1
>server=/10.in-addr.arpa/10.1.1.2
>bogus-priv
># exempt 127.0.0.0/8 from rebinding checks; range used by DBL
>rebind-localhost-ok
>log-queries
>log-facility=/var/log/dnsmasq.log
>
>
>There are these lines in the log:
>Oct 15 12:16:16 dnsmasq[32176]: query[A] localhost.(none).example.local from 127.0.0.1
>Oct 15 12:16:16 dnsmasq[32176]: forwarded localhost.(none).example.local to 10.1.1.2
>Oct 15 12:16:16 dnsmasq[32176]: forwarded localhost.(none).example.local to 10.1.1.1
>
>
>Why does dnsmasq forward "localhost" queries to upstream servers?
>How can I configure dnsmasq to directly reply to queries to localhost.* ?


the query is not for "localhost" but for "localhost.(none).example.local".

while it's clearly broken query, it's not on dnsmasq to check.

find out who issues those queries and fix it.


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