Public bug reported:
Most people won't run into this problem, but if you use a very large
hosts-file (like this one here: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/) you
fill up the cache completely. No matter what you set for cache-size, the
maximum possible value is hardcoded in the file option.c of the dnsmasq
sources.
As there is no indication of this arbitrary limit , you might end up
wondering: why the hell is dnsmasq not caching anything?
The value was probably put there to save resources if dnsmasq runs on an
embedded system and users who need a bigger cache size can setup their
patched instance of dnsmasq, but there should be at least some kind of
warning in the default config file.
** Affects: dnsmasq (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1619422
Title:
dnsmasq cache-size is hardcoded to 10000
Status in dnsmasq package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Most people won't run into this problem, but if you use a very large
hosts-file (like this one here: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/) you
fill up the cache completely. No matter what you set for cache-size,
the maximum possible value is hardcoded in the file option.c of the
dnsmasq sources.
As there is no indication of this arbitrary limit , you might end up
wondering: why the hell is dnsmasq not caching anything?
The value was probably put there to save resources if dnsmasq runs on
an embedded system and users who need a bigger cache size can setup
their patched instance of dnsmasq, but there should be at least some
kind of warning in the default config file.
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