I have dnsmasq 2.62 on a RasberryPi on my LAN, it's been doing DHCP and DNS quite happily for some years now.
I've suddenly started getting REFUSED back, sometimes, e.g.:- chris@esprimo$ host news.plus.net Host news.plus.net not found: 5(REFUSED) chris@esprimo$ but another system on the same LAN gets an address:- chris$ host news.plus.net news.plus.net is an alias for usenet.plus.net. usenet.plus.net is an alias for europe.isp.giganews.com. europe.isp.giganews.com has address 216.166.105.145 chris$ It's not always the same system that's getting the 'REFUSED' message so I *think* something odd may be happening to dnsmasq. Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be? Further information, wierdly 'dig' works OK:- chris@esprimo$ dig news.plus.net ; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> news.plus.net ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59408 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;news.plus.net. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: news.plus.net. 34838 IN CNAME usenet.plus.net. usenet.plus.net. 184 IN CNAME europe.isp.giganews.com. europe.isp.giganews.com. 58 IN A 216.166.105.145 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: isp.giganews.com. 520 IN NS ns1.dca1.giganews.com. isp.giganews.com. 520 IN NS ns1.ams1.giganews.com. ;; Query time: 13 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.1.1#53(127.0.1.1) ;; WHEN: Wed Jun 21 13:31:27 BST 2017 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 162 chris@esprimo$ host news.plus.net Host news.plus.net not found: 5(REFUSED) chris@esprimo$ -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss