Hi Victor
on 06.07.2012 22:35, Victor McAllister wrote: .... > > I changed resolv.conf to only list 127.0.0.1 and my isps DNS machines. AFAIK the resolver library goes through the namservers sequentially. > > This improved the workings of dnsmasq. It has only lost its bearings to > the outside DNS once in two days. When it did so, I did an nslookup on > the router specifying the ip of the outside DNS servers and it > immediately found its bearings. Evidently dnsmasq can get lost even when > it only knows itself and two dns servers. well, nslookup follows the rules of the resolver library. > > I put the dns servers in a separate file /etc/dns.conf to decouple > dnsmasq from resolv.conf. This file only has the IPs of my ISPs DNS servers. This is certainly the most important change. > > resolve.conf only has 127.0.0.1 > > This is working - but I will watch it for a while to see if dnsmasq can > still get "lost". Thanks. As long as dnsmasq is able to serve the addresses you should be fine. Speaking for myself I have bind running on an internal system to handle my internal view and the firewall only knows the external name servers, but I guess this is just personal taste. cheers Erich
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