Hi,

yes, dnsmasq has some stability issues. This has become way better
since a few releases, but it is still not at the level where it should
be.

Have you any information about how to reproduce the crash? I
experienced them for a time, but they were all random and I could not
debug this a lot.

I just merged a patch with some fixes. Maybe it has been fixed in
there. Please test Core Update 96 as soon as it becomes available for
testing.

Best,
-Michael

On Fri, 2015-11-27 at 16:32 -0600, R. W. Rodolico wrote:
> I am running 95 and have had two times in the past couple of weeks
> where
> dnsmasq has died on me. I have been able to fix the problem by
> starting
> it up again and it works just fine.
> 
> The error appears to be associated with these log entries:
> 
> Nov 24 13:38:26 dd-router kernel: dnsmasq[2789]: segfault at 0 ip
> 0805daaf sp 5af771e0 error 4 in dnsmasq[8048000+32000]
> Nov 24 13:38:26 dd-router kernel: grsec: Segmentation fault occurred
> at
>    (nil) in /usr/sbin/dnsmasq[dnsmasq:2789] uid/euid:99/99
> gid/egid:40/40, parent /sbin/init[init:1] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0
> Nov 24 13:38:26 dd-router kernel: grsec: bruteforce prevention
> initiated
> due to crash of /usr/sbin/dnsmasq against uid 99, banning suid/sgid
> execs for 15 minutes.  Please investigate the crash report for
> /usr/sbin/dnsmasq[dnsmasq:2789] uid/euid:99/99 gid/egid:40/40, parent
> /sbin/init[init:1] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0
> 
> this is a fresh install of IPFire 94, then upgrade to 95. Please let
> me
> know what I can do to further troubleshoot this.
> 
> Rod
>