Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: FOUO Indeed, the firewall was blocking the DNS requests.
I enabled the DNS service on the firewall for the dnsmasq machine and I finally got back DNS responses. Thanks for your help, Gary -----Original Message----- From: Simon Kelley [mailto:si...@thekelleys.org.uk] Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 3:26 PM To: Hakenson, Gary C CIV USA ATEC Cc: dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk Subject: Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] DNS does not work (UNCLASSIFIED) Hakenson, Gary C CIV USA ATEC wrote: > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: FOUO > > I don't want queries to go to upstream DNS servers. I only want to use > the local /etc/hosts file. > > I ran tcpdump on the dnsmasq machine and I can see the DNS queries > coming in but dnsmasq is not responding. > > Syslog shows the dnsmasq is not responding either. > Can you see the dnsmasq startup banners in the syslog? Given the information we have so far, I think iptables rules blocking the packets are the most likely explanation. Cheers, Simon. Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: FOUO