[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq and LDAP

[Simon Kelley]

Enderson Maia wrote:
> Hello, I'm implementing LDAP on my company, and for now I have all
> users, and sudo rules
> stored on it. Today I configured nss to look for hosts at ldap, but
> dnsmasq didn't worked
> looking there.
> 
> So my question is, dnsmasq directly looks for entries on /etc/hosts ou
> it obeys the nsswitch.conf
> order to search for hosts, that in my case is
> 
> hosts: files ldap dns
> 
> When I add a host entry on LDAP it works with ping, locally, but
> dnsmasq don't find the
> host, and remote dns clients don't find it.
> 
> 
> 

dnsmasq doesn't support LDAP, and ignores nsswitch.conf completely. 
Changing that would not be trivial, sorry.

Cheers,

Simon.