I really didn't expect dnsmasq to count the number of hops. I found a very similar issue in systemd-resolved, but with a different fix:<p><a href="http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.systemd.devel/25160" rel="nofollow">http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.systemd.devel/...</a><p>The compressed label should never be allowed to refer to itself in the first place, so there's no point in counting how many times you loop.