[Dnsmasq-discuss] Setting up DNS with DHCP (fwd)

[Simon Kelley]

Philippe Faure wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I managed to get dnsmasq running, well atleast the dhcp protion,  last
> night in 20 mintues.  Great piece of
> software thank you.  I have noticed though that the only way for it to
> work was to point each client DNS requests to my router 192.168.0.200
> which acts as the interface to my ISP.  not to my dnsmasq server.
> The server running dnsmasq at 192.168.0.1. the contents of the
> /etc/resolv.conf file is:
> nameserver 192.168.0.200
> 
> I can't seem to get the internal dns setup to work properly.  When I point
> the dns requests to dnsmasq server no internal nor external requests are
> completed.  I have a feeling that there is a setup issue with dnsmasq but
> not quite sure where to look.

Start by setting the log-queries flag in /etc/dnsmasq.conf. That should 
get you some more information about what's happening.

> 
> I know that in a previous version of dnsmasq, I would be able to see the
> client names and their associated IP aderesses, but I can't seem to find
> this file anymore.

On Linux, it defaults to /var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases.



Cheers,

Simon.

> 
> Any help in this setup would be appreciated.
> 
> Philippe
> 
> 
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