[Dnsmasq-discuss] Possible to reuse Cache over restats?

[Geert Stappers]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 08:25:18PM +0000, Dominik Derigs wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-06-29 at 18:37 +0000, Tobias Hochgürtel wrote:
> > There isn't a feature to reuse the dns-cache?
> > or a plan to add this feature?
> > 
> 
> There is no such feature and there is also nothing planned at the moment

Oh, it was not a joke.


> However, restarting dnsmasq once per hour surely is the least optimal
> solution to circumvent what you are observing.

So true.

 
> On Wed, 2022-06-29 at 18:37 +0000, Tobias Hochgürtel wrote:
> > I also don't know how I can analyse that behavior.
> 
> You could use some widely known and used tools like Wireshark where various
> tutorial are available to see whether the issue is dnsmasq not responding
> or the queries not making their way to dnsmasq or if something happens to
> the queries sent upstream to the forward destionation, or whatever else may
> be happening. We can surely give some assistance here, if you want.

Here already some assistance:

* Tell us which version of dnsmasq is being used
* Reread the manual page and in particular --log-queries option


Groeten
Geert Stappers
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