[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq in docker container, why and what

[Dimitry Andric]

On 25 Aug 2024, at 17:05, Danil Smirnov <danil.smirnov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 5:36 PM Geert Stappers <stappers at stappers.nl> wrote:
> Please do that for dnsmasq community and for a future version of
> you in your current situation which has to start an email thread
> with "There is some evidence on the Internet that dnsmasq doesn't play
> well with docker".
> 
> Well, the evidence is there and my links are speaking for themselves, aren't they?
> 
> Even if you think that the selection of links was preconceived I can provide some more arguments for why the "dnsmasq doesn't play well with docker" statement still looks valid to me:
> 
> 1) There is no official Docker image for dnsmasq - those images created by volunteers are outdated and at least some of them (like dockur/dnsmasq) cause errors.
> 
> 2) There is no GitHub/GitLab public repo with Dockerfile where I can submit an issue/pull request and communicate with developers - this list is the only channel.
> 
> You might think that my thread isn't appropriate for this list, but unfortunately, I haven't found a better place to report the issue which, after the pretty intensive googling, looks like a systematic one.

Is there any way to reproduce this issue reliably? That is, some recipe that says: run this particular docker container, run some script that queries it, observe hang after N minutes?

-Dimitry