On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 03:57:19PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > Package: dnsmasq > Version: 2.75-1 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > I just tried your suggestion with --hostdir=/tmp/test. While I see these > log messages nicely: > > Sep 11 15:53:49 foo dnsmasq[14616]: inotify, new or changed file > /tmp/test/libvirt-qemu%3A%2F%2F%2Fsystem.hosts.tmp > Sep 11 15:53:49 foo dnsmasq[14616]: read > /tmp/test/libvirt-qemu%3A%2F%2F%2Fsystem.hosts.tmp - 3 addresses > Sep 11 15:53:49 foo dnsmasq[14616]: inotify, new or changed file > /tmp/test/libvirt-qemu%3A%2F%2F%2Fsystem.hosts > Sep 11 15:53:49 foo dnsmasq[14616]: read > /tmp/test/libvirt-qemu%3A%2F%2F%2Fsystem.hosts - 3 addresses > > these addresses are _only_ being served if they are already present in > the file during daemon start. New entries are not being served. Note > that my program writes to a .tmp first and then does a rename so this > might confuse dnsmasq (and I can't use s.th. like:
Even when I skip the writing to .tmp file step dnsmasq does only server entries that are present in the file at startup. A SIGHUP also lets the daemon server the entries from the hostdir. Cheers, -- Guido
