[Dnsmasq-discuss] basic host name problem

[Adam Hardy]

dnsmasq.to.peejay at spamgourmet.com on 26/01/10 08:20, wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Adam Hardy
>> <adam.ant at cyberspaceroad.com> wrote:
> [leases work but]
>>> 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
> 
> Richard wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Adam wrote:
>>> I've got 127.0.0.1 in my /etc/hosts
> 
> Richard's zeroed in on the problem I reckon.
> 
> Here's the Debian Way <tm> to fix it, imho.
> 
> Did you apt-get install resolvconf? In debian that takes care of the
> dnsmasq usage.
> 
> And you can add
> 
>   dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 4.2.2.4
> 
> to your interfaces file for the interface connecting to the internet on
> the router for when dnsmasq doesn't have it in cache. (Use:
> dns-nameservers 192.168.0.2 8.8.8.8 4.2.2.4 for the lan setting).
> 
> When you've done that, apt-get install dnsutils and see what dig
> google.com or such on the router tells you is the IP of the nameserver you
> are using. It should be 127.0.0.1.

Hi PJ
sounds interesting - but the external interface gets has a DHCP ip address so I 
can't put that into /etc/networking/interfaces. Or are you talking just 
temporarily for debugging purposes?