[Dnsmasq-discuss] config error is REFUSED (EDE: not ready) since v2.86

[Geert Stappers]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 12:11:19AM -0400, Jack YAPI wrote:
> We do use dnsmasq 2.85 but any newer versions passed 2.85 result in "config
> error is REFUSED (EDE:not ready)".
> I saw a patch was made to handle the address type in
> https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2021q3/015644.html

copied to here:

| Apologies all.
|
| The
|
| --address=/#/......
|
| functionality got omitted in the 2.86 domain-search rewrite, which
| explains everything. Treating # as a domain name, it doesn't match
| the test domain, so dnsmasq tries to forward upstream. There are no
| upstream servers configured, so it returns REFUSED.
|
| I just pushed a pretty straightforward patch to fix this.
|
| Cheers,
|
| Simon.
 
> 
> Can we have a similar patch to handle the server type as well. It looks
> like it's only grabbing # as domain without processing the ip address
> appended to it.
> 
> In our case we are trying to start dnsmasq with
> 
> dnsmasq -k -q \
>     --log-facility=- \
>     --log-debug \
>     --cache-size=0 \
>     --no-hosts \
>     --no-resolv \
>     --server=/#/x.x.x.x \
> 
> 
> with x.x.x.x is the ip address.

The IP-address of what?

 
> In the log we can see that it's referencing the domain as:
> for domain #
> config error is REFUSED (EDE:not ready)"

I haven't tried yet to reproduce the error.

I don't understand what the
>     --server=/#/x.x.x.x \
is supposed to do.   The \ seems to be lost, so am I  :-)


Groeten
Geert Stappers
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