[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq using 100% of cpu

[Simon Kelley]

Very suspicious of listen-address=127.0.0.9. Are you sure you've not 
created a loop where dnsmasq is send queries back to itself?

Enabling logging, and/or --dns-loop-detect would be useful.


Cheers, Simon.

On 5/1/24 23:47, Kenneth Berland wrote:
> On March 2, 2020 (possibly causing the Pandemic?), there was a thread 
> with this name that went unresolved. I'm facing the same issue with 
> dnsmasq-2.90 and the following configuration. After about 10 minutes, 
> dnsmasq starts to consume 100% of the CPU. I'm running like this:
> 
> $ wget https://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/dnsmasq-2.90.tar.xz 
> <https://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/dnsmasq-2.90.tar.xz>
> $ tar -xf dnsmasq-2.90.tar.xz
> $ cd dnsmasq-2.90
> $ make
> $ sudo ./src/dnsmasq -k
> $ cat /etc/dnsmasq.conf | grep -v ^# | awk NF
> address=/run.app/199.36.153.11 <http://run.app/199.36.153.11>
> bind-interfaces
> listen-address=127.0.0.9
> 
> -KB
> 
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