Can I see live DNS lookups

[Tom Jo-Jo Junior Shabadoo]

Hi guys,

Is there a command to run from console to see live DNS lookups? I mainly need it to find domains used by devices or apps to take full advantage of the VPN Director.
I know Diversion has this feature, but I had ro remove it as it made the GUI unresponsive.

/Tom

 

[ColinTaylor]

You could enter the following command and then look at the queries in the System Log.

killall dnsmasq; dnsmasq --log-async --log-queries

 

[Martinski]

You could enter the following command and then look at the queries in the System Log.

killall dnsmasq; dnsmasq --log-async --log-queries

Building upon the above suggestion, if you want to get a separate log file temporarily (perhaps for easier review later), you can specify a full path to a log file.

For example:

killall dnsmasq ; dnsmasq --log-async --log-queries --log-facility="/opt/var/tmp/dnsmasq.queries.log"

Of course, the folder path must already exist. Once you're done, don't forget to put things as they were before so that logging goes back to the System Log. The temporary log file can grow big fairly quickly, depending on your network activity.

service restart_dnsmasq