[Dnsmasq-discuss] DNS refused when internet is down

[john doe]

On 11/25/2020 9:31 AM, Duncan Webb wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> When the internet is down for some external reason nslookup is returning
> "Connection to DNS 10.0.0.1 was refused" when looking up a host on the
> LAN that has its IP from DHCP. Both DHCP and DNS are provided by dnsmasq.
>
> Is this the expected behaviour or a misconfiguration?
>

No, this is not the expected behavior.
We can not say where the issue lies with the little information you have
provided.

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John Doe