On 11/09/15 15:54, Guido Günther wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 03:57:19PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: >> Package: dnsmasq >> Version: 2.75-1 >> Severity: normal >> >> Hi, >> I just tried your suggestion with --hostdir=/tmp/test. While I see these >> log messages nicely: >> >> Sep 11 15:53:49 foo dnsmasq[14616]: inotify, new or changed file >> /tmp/test/libvirt-qemu%3A%2F%2F%2Fsystem.hosts.tmp >> Sep 11 15:53:49 foo dnsmasq[14616]: read >> /tmp/test/libvirt-qemu%3A%2F%2F%2Fsystem.hosts.tmp - 3 addresses >> Sep 11 15:53:49 foo dnsmasq[14616]: inotify, new or changed file >> /tmp/test/libvirt-qemu%3A%2F%2F%2Fsystem.hosts >> Sep 11 15:53:49 foo dnsmasq[14616]: read >> /tmp/test/libvirt-qemu%3A%2F%2F%2Fsystem.hosts - 3 addresses >> >> these addresses are _only_ being served if they are already present in >> the file during daemon start. New entries are not being served. Note >> that my program writes to a .tmp first and then does a rename so this >> might confuse dnsmasq (and I can't use s.th. like: > > Even when I skip the writing to .tmp file step dnsmasq does only server > entries that are present in the file at startup. > > A SIGHUP also lets the daemon server the entries from the hostdir. > > Cheers, > -- Guido >
Ok, a trivial attempt to reproduce this fails for me. I create a new file in the directory with a new name in it and I can immediately look up the new name. What is in your hosts file? Are the names or addresses re-used? I would be interesting to set --log-queries, and to look at the cache dump created in the log by sending SIGUSR1. Cheers, Simon.
