I recently (a few weeks ago) installed dnsmasq on my xubuntu 8.10 system, it appears to work pretty well in general but a problem is appearing which *seems* to be related to when I started using dnsmasq.
What happens is that, occasionally, after accessing a particular web site many times, access to that web site hangs. All further access to the web site also results (eventually) in a time-out message. This is not just one particular web site. I first noticed it when searching for accomodation on various French web sites but today I got the same problem when hunting around www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk. The problem is specific to my desktop machine (the xubuntu one) which is the one which is running dnsmasq. When a web site is hung on my machine it's perfectly accessible from browsers on other machines on the same subnet/LAN and using the same router. However IE within a virtual machine on my machine *can't* access the hung web site. The last time this occurred I tried restarting dnsmasq and it seemed to fix the immediate problem, I got a few successful accesses to the web site that had stuck. This is what leads me to believe I (maybe) have a dnsmasq problem. My /etc/dnsmasq.conf file has only the following lines (apart from comments):- domain-needed bogus-priv expand-hosts domain=isbd.net dhcp-range=192.168.1.80,192.168.1.150,1h dhcp-option=3,192.168.1.1 /etc/resolv.conf is:- nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver 195.74.113.58 nameserver 195.74.113.62 That's about it, pretty standard dnsmaq installation. Does anyone have any ideas what may be wrong, ways to diagnose it, or whatever? -- Chris Green