a lightweight server providing DHCP and DNS capabilities
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Why is dnsmasq putting my router IP in /etc/resolv.conf instead of 127.0.0.1?
I'm having DNS resolution issues in various contexts which appear to trace back to my networking configuration.
I'm running just the netmasq-base installation of netmasq on two Linux installations ...
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How can I configure dnsmasq to resolve based on the source of the request?
I'm trying to get SiriProxy to work whenever I'm connected to my home network by setting up dnsmasq on my router running the Tomato firmware to send all requests to the Apple Siri server to my local ...
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can't connect to dnsmasq on local machine, port is open but connection refused
I'm running Scientific Linux 6.3 and just updated the machine to dnsmasq-2.48-13.el6.x86_64. The machine is on local ip 192.168.1.100. I have a local caching DNS setup that was working until the ...
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How to setup whatever.localhost.dev to resolve into 127.0.0.1 on Ubuntu 12.04?
I'm running Ubunut 12.04
I want *localhost.dev to point to 127.0.0.1.
Ubuntu 12.04 comes with dnsmasq-base installed with network-manager. But there is no /etc/dnsmasq.conf.
So I installed the ...
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understanding DNS in ubuntu 12.04
I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed, and also use unbound and usually use openDNS as my DNS server.
When I run dig google.com say I get SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1). What exactly is this thing listening ...
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Virtual Wireless Access Point
Basically, I want to be able to connect to a wireless network from my laptop. Then, I want my virtual machine to acquire internet access via a bridged connection from ETH0 of the VM to the host’s ...
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How to assign multiple fixed ip address for one domain?
I'm running dnsmasq,
address=/chat.freenode.net/130.239.18.172
address=/chat.freenode.net/140.211.167.105
But seems dnsmasq only recognize the last record, what should I do?
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can't start default network, is there a way to run dnsmasq for both local and kvm?
I can't start KVM since I use dnsmasq on my laptop as a DNS cache server,
So, I'm wondering if this can be merged to the server I'm running.
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Is there anything wrong with using dnsmasq as a dhcp server instead of isc-dhcp-server?
So I've configured my home connections to work with dnsmasq since it bundles a dhcp server with it and is quite nice to set up.
There is another package - isc-dhcp-... that also does this and perhaps ...
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Verbose DNS query to see DNS query order?
I typically determine the IP of a host by doing: $ host -t A example.com. Is there a more verbose version of this that tells me whats happening in the background, specifically the order of what is ...
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How to get networkmanager to configure domain specific name servers with openresolv + dnsmasq
I often connect to multiple network simultaneously. Each of these networks provide nameserver configuration via dhcp. E.g. Network 1: (eth0):
domain company1.corp #
nameserver 192.168.0.253
...
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Force to use specific DNS provider at network
OpenDNS offers a quite simple way for internet filtering by categories. Of course who could get the correct IP address can easily bypass the filter but it would be enough for my expectations.
The ...
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Can someone recommend a Linux Distro for purposes of just running a DNS?
I'm looking for an easy to setup Linux distro for just running a DNS server (and nothing else) with something easy to setup like DNSMasq.
At home I run OpenWRT with DNSMasq on my Router, and at work ...
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Adding custom DNS server for pppd client connection?
I'm trying to setup dnsmasq to accelerate DNS resolving , but since i use a PPPoE connection , there're both dns server provided by ISP , and the 127.0.0.1.
So how can i place the local dns server as ...
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How to make dnsmasq avoid DNS cache poisoning?
Some domain gets DNS cache poisoning if dnsmasq is the nameserver.
But the problem is gone if switch to BIND (named).
Is there a easy configuration of dnsmasq so that DNS cache poisoning can be ...
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How to clear DNS cache on DD-WRT
How can I clear the DNS cache in DD-WRT on my router?
DD-WRT uses the dnsmasq daemon.
