Robert Heller wrote:
Question: is dmasq running somewhere? Maybe "orphaned"?
Another thing to check is whether there is an /etc/hosts file and what it contains. And what is in /etc/nsswitch.conf as well.
nsswitch.conf contains: hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] resolve dns myhostname
/etc/hosts contains only the usual localhost stuff and one entry for a related company with no public name available.
"ps -ef" does not reveal any process name containing "dmasq".