[Dnsmasq-discuss] Problem Reading from /etc/dnsmasq.conf on OSX 10.8

Chris Fortier fortier at adobe.com
Fri Sep 13 21:27:49 BST 2013


Ahh… thanks for the quick reply. I spend most of life in the linux world.

-C, --conf-file=<path>                  Specify configuration file
(defaults to /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf).


Thank you!

Chris


---------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
signature = {
        'Name': 'Chris Fortier',
        'Role': 'Quality Engineering',
        'Team': 'Behance',
        'Site': 'www.behance.com <http://www.behance.com/>',
        'Company': 'Adobe',
        'Address': {
                'Street': '532 Broadway Fl 7',
                'City': 'New York',
                'State': 'NY',
                'Zip': '10012'
        },
        'Phone_Numbers': {
                'Office': '917-934-0243',
                'Cell': '321-231-3644',
                'Internal': '30643'
        }
}




On 9/13/13 11:33 AM, "Simon Kelley" <simon at thekelleys.org.uk> wrote:

>The default loaction of the configuration file may be somewhere other
>than /etc/dnsmasq.conf on non-Linux platforms.
>
>
>dnsmasq -w will tell you where it's expected.
>
>Usage: dnsmasq [options]
>
>Valid options are:
>.
>.
>.
>-C, --conf-file=<path>                  Specify configuration file
>(defaults to /etc/dnsmasq.conf).
>
>
>
>Cheers,
>
>SImon.
>
>On 13/09/13 15:13, Chris Fortier wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have dnsmasq installed on Mac OSX 10.8 however it does not appear to
>>be reading the /etc/dnsmasq.conf file.
>> 
>> Setup:
>> 
>> OSX 10.8
>> Dnsmasq installed by homebrew
>> VirtualBox machine running on 192.168.56.101
>> 
>> /etc/dnsmasq.conf:
>> ○ → cat /etc/dnsmasq.conf | grep -v \# | grep -v \^\$
>> address=/dev16.be.lan/192.168.56.101
>> 
>> /etc/resolver:
>> ○ → cat /etc/resolver/dev16.be.lan
>> nameserver 127.0.0.1
>> 
>> Running dnsmasq manually, I get:
>> sudo ./dnsmasq -d
>> dnsmasq: started, version 2.66 cachesize 150
>> dnsmasq: compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt no-DBus no-i18n no-IDN
>>DHCP DHCPv6 no-Lua         TFTP no-conntrack no-ipset auth
>> dnsmasq: setting --bind-interfaces option because of OS limitations
>> dnsmasq: reading /etc/resolv.conf
>> dnsmasq: using nameserver 10.0.1.1#53
>> dnsmasq: read /etc/hosts - 13 addresses
>> 
>> And it won't resolve dev16.be.lan
>> 
>> 
>> However, if I run it with the address argument, this works:
>> ○ → ps -ef | grep dnsmasq
>>     -2   149     1   0 10:00AM ??         0:00.01
>>/usr/local/opt/dnsmasq/sbin/dnsmasq --keep-in-foreground
>>--address=/dev16.be.lan/192.168.56.101
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>----
>> signature = {
>>          'Name': 'Chris Fortier',
>>          'Role': 'Quality Engineering',
>>          'Team': 'Behance',
>>          'Site': 'www.behance.com<http://www.behance.com/>',
>>          'Company': 'Adobe',
>>          'Address': {
>>                  'Street': '532 Broadway Fl 7',
>>                  'City': 'New York',
>>                  'State': 'NY',
>>                  'Zip': '10012'
>>          },
>>          'Phone_Numbers': {
>>                  'Office': '917-934-0243',
>>                  'Cell': '321-231-3644',
>>                  'Internal': '30643'
>>          }
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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