DNSMASQ round Robin

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dneteng
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 19:33    Post subject: DNSMASQ round Robin Reply with quote
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.

Address=/xyz.net/x.x.x.1
Address=/xyz.net/x.x.x.2
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Wildlion
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 27, 2020 22:14    Post subject: Reply with quote
That is not how DNS is designed.

It either queries in order (ie 1,2,3,4) or it does them all at one time and the first to respond is the one used.

If you really would want it to do round robin, there would be a lot of scripting involved.
dneteng
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 27, 2020 22:36    Post subject: DNSMASQ round Robin Reply with quote
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?
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 27, 2020 23:27    Post subject: Reply with quote
http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq-man.html

https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/DNSMasq_as_DHCP_server

And there's at least two or three threads in the forum that I *know* I have posted in about dnsmasq. I don't have them bookmarked, so... yeah.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 1:10    Post subject: Re: DNSMASQ round Robin Reply with quote
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.

What build are you on (DD-WRT)?

And do in Administration->Commands

Code:

cat /tmp/resolv.dnsmasq ; cat /tmp/dnsmasq.conf


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