[Dnsmasq-discuss] New to dnsmasq

[Paul Marwick]

I'm in the process of replacing an old home server with a new one, 
Slackware based. The old machine uses bind, which is slow, horrible to 
set up, and overkill for a small home network. I'm really happy with the 
lookup speed I'm seeing from dnsmasq. But I've got something badly 
configured, and I can't see what I've done.

External lookups work fine, and the machines on the local network are 
all found by name. However, any attempt to ssh to the new server by name 
fails, as does attempting to load the web server by name. Both can be 
done by IP, just not by name.

This is what I've got for /etc/dnsmasq.conf:
# Configuration file for dnsmasq.
#

domain-needed
bogus-priv

resolv-file=/etc/nameserver.list
#server=/localnet/192.168.1.1
local=/ibmpeers.net/
domain=ibmpeers.net
expand-hosts
dhcp-range=192.168.1.100,192.168.1.200,12h

dhcp-host=00:01:d2:04:0b:d8,openwrt,192.168.1.2
dhcp-host=00:14:BF:70:9B:36,unslung,192.168.1.77

#listen-address=127.0.0.1
dhcp-option=option:router,192.168.1.1

# Set the NTP time server addresses to 192.168.0.4 and 10.10.0.5
#dhcp-option=option:ntp-server,192.168.0.4,10.10.0.5
# Set the NTP time server address to be the same machine as
# is running dnsmasq
#dhcp-option=42,0.0.0.0
dhcp-option=vendor:MSFT,2,1i
dhcp-authoritative

My resolv.conf has this:

domain ibmpeers.net
server 127.0.0.1

and I'm using /etc/nameserver.list to set up remote DNS servers:

server 8.8.8.8
server 8.8.4.4

The thing I really don't understand is it seems that when I attempt to 
address the server from one of the other machines, it seems to be 
addressing itself - on my desktop machine, which has the ssh daemon 
running, if I attempt to do something like "ssh root at sms", the 
connection is accepted, but when I connect, I'm actually connecting to 
the machine I'm already on.

Any hints as to the stupid error I've made in setting this up will be 
gratefully accepted...

Paul.