Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 19:33 Post subject: DNSMASQ round Robin
All,
I would like to have two ip addresses returned in a round robin fashion. I am using this on a ddwrt router. Currently I have added two lines in the Additional Dnsmasq Options dialog box of the services tab. Only one of the IpV4 addresses is returned to the clients. Is there a way to have it alternate? If so can someone give me an explicit example. I am not very unix savy so the more explicit the better if it requires anything command line which I have never used on the router.
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2020 22:36 Post subject: DNSMASQ round Robin
The device never uses the first entry even if I use an address to create a failure. Why doesnt it use the first address? How can I make it try the other if it fails?
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 1:10 Post subject: Re: DNSMASQ round Robin
dneteng wrote:
The device never uses the first entry even if I use an address to create a failure. Why doesnt it use the first address? How can I make it try the other if it fails?
Let me repeat what I think that you are saying to check my understanding.
You have two dns ip address specified (say A and B). Your system always uses DNS ip address B, even though A is valid. Then if you specify B as invalid but A as valid, the system still never uses A even though B is invalid.
Is this correct?
I am thinking that it is a config issue, ie something is overlooked.