[Dnsmasq-discuss] resolving on dnsmasq box itself?

[Jima]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Bart Vandewoestyne wrote:
> What is the clean solution to be able to ping and do nslookups
> for the host 'forsythe'?
>
> I also thought of adding a line
>
> prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
>
> to my /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf so that my /etc/resolv.conf has an extra
> line
>
> nameserver 127.0.0.1
>
> but I don't think this is the proper way to do it... it looks like I'm putting
> dnsmasq in a loop this way...

  I don't know when the feature got implemented, but at least on my 2.39 
box, I get this when I start up:

dnsmasq[25415]: using nameserver aa.bb.ccc.2#53
dnsmasq[25415]: using nameserver aa.bb.ccc.1#53
dnsmasq[25415]: ignoring nameserver 127.0.0.1 - local interface

  My resolv.conf contains (among other things):

nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver aa.bb.ccc.1
nameserver aa.bb.ccc.2

  dnsmasq is apparently smart enough to not ask itself for information. ;-)

      Jima