[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq v2.86?

Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant kevin at darbyshire-bryant.me.uk
Thu Aug 12 09:48:09 UTC 2021



> On 12 Aug 2021, at 10:06, Simon Kelley <simon at thekelleys.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> This is useful information, but the backtraces are puzzling: the code
> isn't in tight loop, certainly.
> 
> 
> I wonder if the v4only.arpa thing is not a coincidence?
> 
> Some things to try, please.
> 
> 1) When the dnsmasq process is faulted, run
> 
> strace -p <pid of dnsmasq process>
> 
> 2) Try doing a query on ipv4only.arpa to dnsmasq directly, just in case
> that's the whole trigger.
> 
> 3) Same but straight to stubby
> 
> dig @127.0.0.1 -p 5453 ipv4only.arpa
> 
> 
> 4) Take a look in /usr/share/dnsmasq/rfc6761.conf
> 
> Is .arpa mentioned in there?

For reference, the default content is

# RFC6761 included configuration file for dnsmasq
#
# includes a list of domains that should not be forwarded to Internet name servers
# to reduce burden on them, asking questions that they won't know the answer to.

server=/bind/
server=/invalid/
server=/local/
server=/localhost/
server=/onion/
server=/test/

I wrote it :-)

Kevin

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