[Dnsmasq-discuss] basic host name problem

[dnsmasq.to.peejay at spamgourmet.com]

> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Adam Hardy
> <adam.ant at cyberspaceroad.com> wrote:
[leases work but]
>> There must be something missing from my dnsmasq config because I see now
>> that
>> any attempt to use the host names of dhcp clients from the gateway
>> server fail
>> with " unknown host ...". I'm on debian stable if that makes any
>> difference

Richard wrote:
> Sounds like your gateway is not using dnsmasq for lookups.  dnsmasq
> tells dhcp clients to use its services, but the gateway you will have
> to manually configure in /etc/resolv.conf to send requests to the
> local dnsmasq process.

Adam wrote:
>> I've got 127.0.0.1 in my /etc/hosts

Richard's zeroed in on the problem I reckon.

Here's the Debian Way <tm> to fix it, imho.

Did you apt-get install resolvconf? In debian that takes care of the
dnsmasq usage.

And you can add

  dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 4.2.2.4

to your interfaces file for the interface connecting to the internet on
the router for when dnsmasq doesn't have it in cache. (Use:
dns-nameservers 192.168.0.2 8.8.8.8 4.2.2.4 for the lan setting).

When you've done that, apt-get install dnsutils and see what dig
google.com or such on the router tells you is the IP of the nameserver you
are using. It should be 127.0.0.1.

Pawan Jaitly