I don't know what you mean by 'this', so I can't answer your question directly.
What I can say is that bug #1003842 implies that where you have dnsmasq-A, dnsmasq-B, dnsmasq-C which you want to operate in daisy chain, A forwarding to B and B to C, and you want to give C's listen address to A as a second forwarding address (so that A can contact C if B crashes) then you have to run A in strict-order mode.
I don't know what you mean by 'this', so I can't answer your question directly.
What I can say is that bug #1003842 implies that where you have dnsmasq-A, dnsmasq-B, dnsmasq-C which you want to operate in daisy chain, A forwarding to B and B to C, and you want to give C's listen address to A as a second forwarding address (so that A can contact C if B crashes) then you have to run A in strict-order mode.