[Dnsmasq-discuss] DNS refused when internet is down

[Geert Stappers]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 10:44:34AM +0100, john doe wrote:
> 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.

Also my first impression, on second thought: "It could be" ...


> We can not say
> where the issue lies with the little information you have provided.

So please make your problem an interesting challenge for the ML   ;-)



Regards
Geert Stappers
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