I've been having a lot of annoying issues with my network lately. Many times my VPN stops randomly (Freedome), streaming video stops and other hiccups. I downloaded Little Snitch for my MBP and it was capturing IPv6 netbios communications as well as IPv6 from mDNSResponder service. Now I have IPv6 disabled on my router so I'm not 100% sure what is going on here. I have a suspicion that something "not-so-nice" may be responsible but nothing concrete, just a bunch of coincidences and oddities.
I had set my DNS servers to be 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 with dnssec enabled within the router however in addition to the IPv6, I also found in the syslog today, my ISP's DNS.
May 26 10:40:51 dnsmasq[803]: using nameserver 71.10.216.1#53
I either want to be using my VPN's DNS, or on the rare times i need my VPN off, I wanted to use Google's DNS. I also saw dnsmasq and that didn't seem right either, I thought I recalled seeing udhcp or something like that in the past. In reading about dnsmasq I read that it can intelligently add DHCP leases to the DNS DB for lookup requests. Maybe that is how the IPv6 was showing up? is that how my ISP's DNS came to be?
Right now I just want to get back to basics. How can I disable DNSmasq?
I had set my DNS servers to be 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 with dnssec enabled within the router however in addition to the IPv6, I also found in the syslog today, my ISP's DNS.
May 26 10:40:51 dnsmasq[803]: using nameserver 71.10.216.1#53
I either want to be using my VPN's DNS, or on the rare times i need my VPN off, I wanted to use Google's DNS. I also saw dnsmasq and that didn't seem right either, I thought I recalled seeing udhcp or something like that in the past. In reading about dnsmasq I read that it can intelligently add DHCP leases to the DNS DB for lookup requests. Maybe that is how the IPv6 was showing up? is that how my ISP's DNS came to be?
Right now I just want to get back to basics. How can I disable DNSmasq?