Dnsmasq daemon crashing after 2.2.5 update
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my DNS service crash daily on pfsense 2.2.6.
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I have the same issue, only for me it happens only when I view a certain website http://www.diyaudio.com. After dnsmasq crashes, no other sites will load except for diyaudio, until i restart it.
I tried the workaround and dnsmasq wouldnt start from the GUI so I started it from the command line. I couldn't find any other info in the log except what has already been posted by others.
edit: I just tried to reproduce it now after doing the fix and then reverting and it doesnt seem to crash. It crashed every time I went to the site after the update to 2.2.6-RELEASE (i386) before though.
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Just for other people:
I had this issue also, and using cmb's binary wouldn't start (I suspect due to it being built for a different architecture? I was running i386).What solved it for me:
Install pkg (Package manager) and use this to install to 2.76test5 - it's really easy.
Restart the dnsmasq daemon so that it runs the new version (check log to see that the correct version started)
Problem solved.We used to crash approx every 2 days, and started crashing about every 2 hours before I had to do something about it - now the DNS forwarder has been up for 6 days without issue.
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Any progress?
2.2.6 dnsmasq is still crashy once every few hours/days (depending on the load). -
Any progress?
There's a fix here for the few that are seeing it, with the dnsmasq 2.76test version. We'll update to dnsmasq 2.76 as soon as it's released, or to a prerelease version if necessary if they're not releasing 2.76 soon enough for our 2.3 release.
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Just for other people:
I had this issue also, and using cmb's binary wouldn't start (I suspect due to it being built for a different architecture? I was running i386).What solved it for me:
Install pkg (Package manager) and use this to install to 2.76test5 - it's really easy.
Restart the dnsmasq daemon so that it runs the new version (check log to see that the correct version started)
Problem solved.We used to crash approx every 2 days, and started crashing about every 2 hours before I had to do something about it - now the DNS forwarder has been up for 6 days without issue.
Could you explain the steps you took in more detail? I've installed pkg via ssh into my pfSense box, but not sure where to go from there. When I try to get it to list packages it only lists itself as installed…
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Could you explain the steps you took in more detail? I've installed pkg via ssh into my pfSense box, but not sure where to go from there. When I try to get it to list packages it only lists itself as installed…
Just run:
pkg install dnsmasq-devel -
Just a +1 here. Using 2.2.6-RELEASE and DNS forwarder crashes at least once a week, sometimes several times. Just installed 2.76test12 this morning. Will report back after I have confirmed dnsmasq is not crashing anymore.
04/13/2016 - dnsmasq still working fine. No crashes.
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The dnsmasq 2.76test version in 2.3 release also fixes the issue here.
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As the author of this post I can now confirm that dnsmasq is behaving nicely in pfsense version 2.3.1.