On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 05:50:15PM +0000, Brett Parker wrote:
On 12 Dec 17:33, Chris G wrote:
I have installed dnsmasq on my xubuntu 8.10 system using the standard ubuntu apt-get which gives me version 2.45 of dnsmasq. It seems to have installed a reasonable default configuration and dnsmasq has been started up.
However I can't get it to provide answers to any DNS requests.
As I understand it dnsmasq should read the contents of /etc/hosts and give out local network IP addresses in response to DNS requests, only passing requests on the the external server(s) in /etc/resolv.conf if the address requested isn't a local one.
I have dnsmasq running on 192.168.1.4 whose /etc/hosts has the following in it (after the standard default stuff):-
# # # Local additions # 192.168.1.1 vigor 2820n 192.168.1.4 home.isbd.net isbd 84-45-228-40.no-dns-yet.enta.net chris.isbd.net 192.168.1.5 home 192.168.1.6 maxine 192.168.1.7 nas garage 192.168.1.44 hp7310 HPEDDBB7 HP000D9D068F7D 192.168.13.254 2wire BT2700HGV gateway.2wire.netI am attempting to use it from 192.168.1.7 which has no non-default additions to /etc/hosts and has the following in /etc/resolv.conf:-
# Generated by NetworkManager 192.168.1.4That looks wrong, it should be: nameserver 192.168.1.4
So it should! How stupid, that's fixed it, thank you. :-)