dnsmasq keeps changing nameservers?

Please have a look at the cronjobs, maybe there is some cron set to revert them back to old nameservers

Hi. Yes, that was looked at early after I saw this happening. I see nothing under /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root that would do this. I see no other crontab files under /var/spool/cron/ .

I also tried:

:/etc# grep -i dns cron*

:/etc# grep -i dns cron/

:/etc# grep -i dns cron//*

but nothing came up.

Thanks.

Lester

Take a look in the /etc/cron.* directories?

Alternatively, manually define nameservers in /etc/network/interfaces, 'auto eth0; iface eth0 inet dynamic' add 'dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4'.

(Alternatively, remove the symlink /etc/resolv.conf, and make a new file)

Hi. yes, I believe I did that (just checked again).

I just now made a couple of changes:

/etc/dnsmasq.conf (set no-poll)

/etc/default/dnsmasq (set IGNORE_RESOLVCONF=yes and ENABLED=0)

I don't think changing the symlink will help as OpenVPN looks at /run/dnsmasq/resolv.conf , even if /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf is set as I wish.

I'm trying to do gradual minimal changes to not break OpenVPN.

I'll check /var/log/syslog again tomorrow.

Thanks.

Lester

My latest changes seems to have solved the specific problem. Now I have to see if this wrecked anything else.

Nope. I still am getting many lines in /var/log/apache2/othervhostsaccess.log like:

::1 - - [23/Jun/2015:18:42:53 -0700] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 403 0 "-" "Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) OpenSSL/1.0.1f (internal dummy connection)"

The 403 errors seem to have been due to

…

coming after

in my ssl.conf file. Once this was fixed, I do not have the 403 problems.

The dnsmasq behavior has not been fixed. I have to poll several files regularly to "correct" my nameservers.