Hi,
I am running dnsmasq in debian lenny, wvdial connecting but dnsmasq doesn't work, the /var/run/dnsmasq/resolv.conf file is empty this is /var/log/syslog:

Dec 31 00:21:25 jan pppd[3486]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
Dec 31 00:21:25 jan kernel: [ 294.057058] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
Dec 31 00:21:25 jan pppd[3486]: Using interface ppp0
Dec 31 00:21:25 jan pppd[3486]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttySHSF0
Dec 31 00:21:26 jan pppd[3486]: PAP authentication succeeded
Dec 31 00:21:26 jan kernel: [ 294.847467] PPP BSD Compression module registered
Dec 31 00:21:26 jan kernel: [ 294.917401] PPP Deflate Compression module registered
Dec 31 00:21:27 jan pppd[3486]: not replacing existing default route via 192.168.1.1
Dec 31 00:21:27 jan pppd[3486]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP
Dec 31 00:21:27 jan pppd[3486]: local IP address 175.106.56.119
Dec 31 00:21:27 jan pppd[3486]: remote IP address 175.106.56.11
Dec 31 00:21:27 jan pppd[3486]: primary DNS address 208.67.222.123

Dec 31 00:29:39 jan dnsmasq[3806]: started, version 2.45 cachesize 150
Dec 31 00:29:39 jan dnsmasq[3806]: compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt no-ISC-leasefile DBus I18N TFTP
Dec 31 00:29:39 jan dnsmasq[3806]: no servers found in /var/run/dnsmasq/resolv.conf, will retry
Dec 31 00:29:39 jan dnsmasq[3806]: read /etc/hosts - 10 addresses

The /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf is ok:
# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 208.67.222.123

This is my /etc/dnsmasq.conf:


http://www.2shared.com/file/ShhXtwRK/dnsmasq.html

any one can help please?

Your dnsmasq.conf has no lines other than comment and empty lines; dnsmasq will not work until you configure it with at least a list of DNS servers.

Thanks for reply catkin, there are nameservers in the /etc/resolv.conf and hosts in the /etc/hosts, i use the dnsmasq default configuration as this work for me in the fedora 12.

Perhaps Fedora 12 has a dnsmasq.conf intended to work "out-of-the-box" and debian lenny doesn't. Perhaps 208.67.222.123 is not a good DNS server. Either way the power of dnsmasq is in being able to pick the best from a list of DNS servers. You could try changing #resolv-file= to resolv-file=/etc/resolv.dnsmasq.conf and creating /etc/resolv.dnsmasq.conf with a list of servers which should include all your ISP's because they should be the fastest plus the fastest public DNS servers from your location which can be found by running the script I posted in this LQ post. For starters you could use
You probably also want to configure the local=<your local domain> line in dnsmasq.conf to avoid long delays while dnsmasq tries to resolve local names from remote DNS servers. Uncommenting log-queries will let you see what dnsmasq is doing by messages in /var/log/messages or whatever log file lenny is set up to use.

BTW you can list the effective content of dnsmasq.conf by running grep -E -v '(^$)|(^#)' /etc/dnsmasq.conf which will strip all the comments and empty lines. Can be used on any Linux config file following the same (common) comment format.