/var/etc/dnsmasq-hosts in 22.1

[scat70]

Hi!

I recently upgraded to 22.1, Generelly this worked fine, but I now have an odd dnsmasq problem. After a certain runtime (with " Register DHCP leases" enabled within a few minutes, without " Register DHCP leases" enabled within a one or two hours), the /var/etc/dnsmasq-hosts is either corrupted (lots of "^@^@" entries) or all static DHCP entries are missing. After restarting dnsmasq the file is correctly regenerated and everything is fine again - for the next minutes or hours. Then local DNS is once again not available, as   something strange happend again to /var/etc/dnsmasq-hosts  :o

Thanks, Marc

[scat70]

Hi!

I switched to Unbound now and deactivated dnsmasq. Hope this solves my issues. So far no problems with Unbound.

BR, Marc

[franco]

Hi Marc,

Thanks for the report. I'll keep this under observation but the service that writes /var/etc/dnsmasq-hosts is going to be replaced anyway, see https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/5119

No idea if the problem is new on FreeBSD 13 or if that was always the case under certain conditions (likely not trivial to reproduce). I have been using Dnsmasq for a long time myself.


Cheers,
Franco