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I've installed valet for laravel using homebrew on my mac (Mojave). According to laravel's documentation I should now be able to ping *.test, but when I keep getting the following error:

ping:cannot resolve foobar.test: Unknown host

It looks like an issue with dnsmasq. I've followed all the suggestions here, but nothing seems to help.

# Content of '/Users/<username>/.config/valet/dnsmasq.conf'

address=/.test/127.0.0.1
listen-address=127.0.0.1

I can see that the resolver for .test seems to be set up ok. Below is the output from scutil --dns

DNS configuration

resolver #1
  search domain[0] : default
  nameserver[0] : 192.168.1.1
  if_index : 6 (en0)
  flags    : Request A records
  reach    : 0x00020002 (Reachable,Directly Reachable Address)

resolver #2
  domain   : local
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  flags    : Request A records
  reach    : 0x00000000 (Not Reachable)
  order    : 300000

resolver #3
  domain   : 254.169.in-addr.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  flags    : Request A records
  reach    : 0x00000000 (Not Reachable)
  order    : 300200

resolver #4
  domain   : 8.e.f.ip6.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  flags    : Request A records
  reach    : 0x00000000 (Not Reachable)
  order    : 300400

resolver #5
  domain   : 9.e.f.ip6.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  flags    : Request A records
  reach    : 0x00000000 (Not Reachable)
  order    : 300600

resolver #6
  domain   : a.e.f.ip6.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  flags    : Request A records
  reach    : 0x00000000 (Not Reachable)
  order    : 300800

resolver #7
  domain   : b.e.f.ip6.arpa
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  flags    : Request A records
  reach    : 0x00000000 (Not Reachable)
  order    : 301000

resolver #8
  domain   : test
  nameserver[0] : 127.0.0.1
  flags    : Request A records, Request AAAA records
  reach    : 0x00030002 (Reachable,Local Address,Directly Reachable Address)

DNS configuration (for scoped queries)

resolver #1
  search domain[0] : default
  nameserver[0] : 192.168.1.1
  if_index : 6 (en0)
  flags    : Scoped, Request A records
  reach    : 0x00020002 (Reachable,Directly Reachable Address)

I can also see that dnsmasq seems to be running ok. Here's the output from brew services list:

dnsmasq started root /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq.plist
httpd   started root /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.httpd.plist
mysql   started root /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist
nginx   started root /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plist
php     started root /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.php.plist
php@7.1 started root /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.php@7.1.plist
php@7.2 started root /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.php@7.2.plist

Other things I've tried:

• Disabling my firewall in case that was blocking the request.
• Restarting dnsmasq (multiple times) using: sudo brew services restart dnsmasq
• Reinstalling valet using valet install
• Checking that there are no conflicting paths in /etc/hosts

Anyone got any other suggestions?

EDIT: Output of sudo brew services restart --verbose dnsmasq

`Stopping `dnsmasq`... (might take a while)
==> Successfully stopped `dnsmasq` (label: homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq)
==> Generated plist for dnsmasq:
   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
   <plist version="1.0">
     <dict>
       <key>Label</key>
       <string>homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq</string>
       <key>ProgramArguments</key>
       <array>
         <string>/usr/local/opt/dnsmasq/sbin/dnsmasq</string>
         <string>--keep-in-foreground</string>
         <string>-C</string>
         <string>/usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf</string>
       </array>
       <key>RunAtLoad</key>
       <true/>
       <key>KeepAlive</key>
       <true/>
     </dict>
   </plist>


/bin/launchctl enable system/homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq
/bin/launchctl bootstrap system /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq.plist
==> Successfully started `dnsmasq` (label: homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq)

EDIT 2:

I think I'm getting somewhere now. I checked in console.app for dnsmasq and I saw the error message:

failed to open pidfile /usr/local/var/run/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.pid: No such file or directory

...which led me here. It turns out I was missing the dnsmasq folder in cd /usr/local/var/run/ so I ran sudo mkdir dnsmasq and now the ping actually returns the following response:

PING foobar.test (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
Request timeout for icmp_seq 4
Request timeout for icmp_seq 5
Request timeout for icmp_seq 6
Request timeout for icmp_seq 7
...

I'm not sure what this means or whether it is now working.

When I go to foobar.test in my browser I get the message This site can’t be reached even though I have created a project with that name and linked it using valet link foobar.

EDIT 3:

I've got ping working properly now by turning off stealth mode (as described here) but I still get This site can’t be reached when I navigate to foobar.test in my browser.

I get the following error when I run curl foobar.test --verbose

* Rebuilt URL to: foobar.test/
*   Trying 127.0.0.1...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to foobar.test (127.0.0.1) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: foobar.test
> User-Agent: curl/7.54.0
> Accept: */*
>
* Recv failure: Connection reset by peer
* Closing connection 0
curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer

EDIT 4

Output of cat /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf | grep -i interface:

# 10.1.2.3 to 192.168.1.1 port 55 (there must be an interface with that
# specified interfaces (and the loopback) give the name of the
# interface (eg eth0) here.
# Repeat the line for more than one interface.
#interface=
# Or you can specify which interface _not_ to listen on
#except-interface=
# If you want dnsmasq to provide only DNS service on an interface,
#no-dhcp-interface=
# even when it is listening on only some interfaces. It then discards
# working even when interfaces come and go and change address. If you
# want dnsmasq to really bind only the interfaces it is listening on,
#bind-interfaces
# that these two Ethernet interfaces will never be in use at the same
# Always give the InfiniBand interface with hardware address