finding the ip address of an upstream DNS

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finding the ip address of an upstream DNS

by peasthope :: Rate this Message:

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I have dnsmasq running on a machine which
connects to the ISP by DHCP.

Can anyone tell me how to find the ip address
of the upstream DNS which dnsmasq refers to?
The best idea I get from the man page is to
specify --log-facility=<file> and look for the
address in the log.

Thanks,           ... Peter E.




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Re: finding the ip address of an upstream DNS

by celejar :: Rate this Message:

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On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:09:58 -0700
peasthope@... wrote:

> I have dnsmasq running on a machine which
> connects to the ISP by DHCP.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to find the ip address
> of the upstream DNS which dnsmasq refers to?
> The best idea I get from the man page is to
> specify --log-facility=<file> and look for the
> address in the log.

In my pretty standard dnsmasq setup, upstream dns is
in /var/run/dnsmasq/resolv.conf.  From the manpage:

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In order to configure dnsmasq to act as cache for the host on which it
is running, put "nameserver  127.0.0.1"  in /etc/resolv.conf  to
force  local  processes to send queries to dnsmasq. Then either specify
the upstream servers directly to dnsmasq using --server options or put
their addresses real in another  file,  say  /etc/resolv.dnsmasq and
run  dnsmasq  with  the -r /etc/resolv.dnsmasq option. This second
technique allows for dynamic update of the server addresses by PPP or
DHCP.
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So, 'ps ax | grep dnsmasq' ought to tell you where upstream is (that's
how I found mine).

Celejar
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