[Bug 1414887] Re: dns query from localnetwork ignored

[Thomas Hood]

> First, as suggested by the author of dnsmasq, the `local-service` 
> should be in the default configuration. However, Ubuntu 14.10
> doesn't have that

What the man page exactly says is that local-service "only has effect
i[f] there are no --interface --except-interface, --listen-address or
--auth-server options".


> Here is what I found out how dnsmasq is started in Ubuntu 14.10:
> /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --no-resolv --keep-in-foreground --no-hosts --bind-interfaces --pid-file=/run/sendsigs.omit.d/network-manager.dnsmasq.pid --listen-address=127.0.1.1 [...]

This is not the dnsmasq process started by the dnsmasq package. It is
the local forwarding dnsmasq process started by NetworkManager. If your
complaint is that the local forwarding dnsmasq process started by
NetworkManager doesn't respond to queries coming from the network then
the answer is that this process is not supposed to do that. But I don't
think that this is your complaint because you said that you didn't have
the problem in Ubuntu 13.10.

On my machine, the dnsmasq process started by the dnsmasq package looks
like this in ps -elf output

    /usr/sbin/dnsmasq -x /var/run/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.pid -u dnsmasq -r
/var/run/dnsmasq/resolv.conf -7 /etc/dnsmasq.d,.dpkg-dist,.dpkg-old
,.dpkg-new --local-service

As no --interface --except-interface, --listen-address or --auth-server
option is given, the --local-service option is active.

In order to deactivate the local-service feature, I suggest you
configure dnsmasq with one of the above mentioned options.


** Changed in: dnsmasq (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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