[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq returning own IP when it can't resolve

[Andrew Gaffney]

Simon Kelley wrote:
> Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> 
>> Is it the normal behavior for dnsmasq to return the IP of the box that 
>> it's running on when it can't resolve a domain name? I'm seeing this 
>> behavior in a pretty much default dnsmasq setup. Is there a way to 
>> turn this off?
> 
> It's not normal behaviour at all, it will return a NXDOMAIN or NODATA 
> reply under those circumstances. Are you sure that you are not being 
> confused by the output of the nslookup command, which prints the address 
> of the server it used first?
> 
> 
> desk:~# nslookup noname.nodomain
> Server:         192.168.0.4
> Address:        192.168.0.4#53
> 
> ** server can't find noname.nodomain: NXDOMAIN

I'm not quite sure what's happening. When I use nslookup or dig, I get a proper 
response. When I type in a non-existant domain name in Firefox (Linux and 
Windows) or IE, I end up redirected to the domain that is being hosted on the 
same server that dnsmasq is running on.

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Andrew Gaffney                            http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
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