AWS drops dnsmasq forwarded DNS queries when source port less than 1025.
Issue
- Most DNS queries succeed.
- Occasionally DNS queries timeout when forwarded by
dnsmasq
on AWS - The DNS queries that fail have a source port number lower than 1025.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
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