[Dnsmasq-discuss] basic host name problem

[richardvoigt at gmail.com]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Adam Hardy <adam.ant at cyberspaceroad.com> wrote:
> richardvoigt at gmail.com on 25/01/10 21:14, wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Adam Hardy
>> <adam.ant at cyberspaceroad.com> wrote:
>>> I've got a gateway server running dnsmasq for dhcp on my LAN and I've got a
>>> couple of problems with the host names of the dhcp clients.
>>>
>>> The first is a Belkin print server which picks up its ip address and passes thro
>>> its hostname MFD8FDC7. This appears in dnsmasq.leases - so I should be able to
>>> communicate with it now, right?
>>>
>>> There must be something missing from my dnsmasq config because I see now that
>>> any attempt to use the host names of dhcp clients from the gateway server fail
>>> with " unknown host ...". I'm on debian stable if that makes any difference
>>
>> Sounds like your gateway is not using dnsmasq for lookups.  dnsmasq
>> tells dhcp clients to use its services, but the gateway you will have
>> to manually configure in /etc/resolv.conf to send requests to the
>> local dnsmasq process.
>
> I mistakenly included the /etc/hosts file instead of the /etc/resolv.conf file
> which would have been far more informative re this problem.
>
> It looks like this:
>
> adam at isengard:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
> domain isengard.localdomain
> search isengard.localdomain
> nameserver 127.0.0.1
> nameserver 194.74.65.68
>
> Do I need to add more in there?

That should do it.

Run netstat whilst dnsmasq is stopped, to see if any other dns-capable
daemon could be binding port 53 and preventing dnsmasq from receiving
the queries.

>
> Regards
> Adam
>
>
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