FWG 1.983, app 1.69.3. WAN access is fine. Reaching local devices by IP is fine. Resolving local names is not fine.
The local domain name is lan. I tried several things, e.g., toggling DNS settings, temporarily changing device and local LAN domain name, and, of course, rebooting FWG.
I ran this by Claude. It says my dnsmasq service is broken. Is its interpretation correct? How do I fix this?
pi@Firewalla:~ (Home Gold) $ systemctl status firemasq --no-pager
● firemasq.service - Firewalla DNSMASQ
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/firemasq.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2026-09-20 19:31:26 CDT; 1s ago
Process: 211460 ExecStart=/bin/bash /home/pi/firewalla/extension/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.sh (code=exited, status=127)
Main PID: 211460 (code=exited, status=127)
pi@Firewalla:~ (Home Gold) $ sudo journalctl -u firemasq --no-pager -n 50
-- Logs begin at Sun 2026-09-20 19:03:12 CDT, end at Sun 2026-09-20 19:31:28 CDT. --
Sep 20 19:31:23 Firewalla systemd[1]: Started Firewalla DNSMASQ.
Sep 20 19:31:23 Firewalla bash[211416]: /bin/bash: /home/pi/firewalla/extension/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.sh: No such file or directory
Sep 20 19:31:23 Firewalla systemd[1]: firemasq.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
Sep 20 19:31:23 Firewalla systemd[1]: firemasq.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Sep 20 19:31:26 Firewalla systemd[1]: firemasq.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Sep 20 19:31:26 Firewalla systemd[1]: Stopped Firewalla DNSMASQ.
Sep 20 19:31:26 Firewalla systemd[1]: Started Firewalla DNSMASQ.
Sep 20 19:31:26 Firewalla bash[211460]: /bin/bash: /home/pi/firewalla/extension/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.sh: No such file or directory
Sep 20 19:31:26 Firewalla systemd[1]: firemasq.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
Sep 20 19:31:26 Firewalla systemd[1]: firemasq.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
pi@Firewalla:~ (Home Gold) $ ps aux | grep -i dnsmasq | grep -v grep
pi 19092 0.0 0.1 18856 3916 ? S 17:58 0:00 tail -F /alog/dnsmasq-acl.log -n 0
pi 171200 0.0 0.0 6032 3428 ? S 19:09 0:00 /home/pi/firerouter/platform/gold/bin/dnsmasq -k --clear-on-reload -u pi -C /home/pi/firerouter/etc/dnsmasq.dh
cp.default.conf
root 171202 0.0 0.0 6032 1884 ? S 19:09 0:00 /home/pi/firerouter/platform/gold/bin/dnsmasq -k --clear-on-reload -u pi -C /home/pi/firerouter/etc/dnsmasq.dh
cp.default.conf
This doesn't look good either:
pi@Firewalla:~ (Home Gold) $ systemctl status firerouter_dns
● firerouter_dns.service - FireRouter DNS
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/firerouter_dns.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2026-09-20 19:52:13 CDT; 42s ago
Process: 250712 ExecStart=/bin/bash /home/pi/.router/tmp/dns.sh (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 250712 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Source: r/firewalla · by /u/kamiller42