Date: Monday 11th February 2013 09:45:46 UTC (over 4 years ago) On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 09:11:47AM +0000, Simon Kelley wrote: > > On 11/02/13 09:02, trang dang wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I use dnsmasq 2.63 on debian, only dns is on, and want to read cache > > > dump with a small script. Till now the cache dump has been written > > > in extra log file (log-facility is on) or in syslog. Is there any > > > way to get an extra cache file? It will be easier to parse the > > > content of the cache. Furthermore, the host name in the log is cut > > > after about 39 characters. Is there any way to get the complete > > > content? > > > > There's not way to do either of those, sorry. You best bet is probably > > to start hacking on the existing cache dumping code in src/cache.c to > > make it do what you want. > I did exactly this about a month ago:ยน > > https://github.com/guns/dnsmasq/commit/13ac5ace736a5d24c629d8cadc65eda92ea443cb.patch > This adds a `--hosts-cache=` option that dumps the current cache > to in hosts file format on SIGUSR1. > If anyone is curious why I would want such a feature, I am using the > information to construct firewalls for children (e.g. visit pbs.org, > browse around, dump hosts to file, then add them to child's outbound > firewall rules). There are other ways to go about this, but I found this > to be straightforward. > It also happens to be useful for navigating to sites whose DNS entries > have been recently hijacked, which has become a frightening reality in > recent years. > guns
This is exactly what I am looking for. @Simon, The dnsmasq cache dump is a feature that is desirable by many people, and this is the most straightforward solution. Would you take this patch please, or there are better ways to do it now? Thanks
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