[Dnsmasq-discuss] DNS configuration

[Simon Kelley]

Glandvador wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I want to replace my current dchpd + bind server on my small (mostly 
> memory) appliance with dnsmasq.
> 
> I use the following dnsmasq configuration:
> 
> I have declared:
> 
> address = /mydomain.com/192.168.10.1
> 
> where the 192.168.10.1 is my appliance IP. I am doing that in order to 
> resolve queries to http://mydomain.com to my appliance.
> 
> I also have declared some hosts:
> 
> address = /host1.mydomain.com/192.168.10.2
> address = /host2.mydomain.com/192.168.10.3, etc.
> 
> This almost works, but a unknown host like unknown.mydomain.com will 
> resolve to mydomain.com i.e 192.168.10.1
> 
> Is a way to achieve something like:
> 
> By default all requests to:
>       1) *.mydomain.com returns invalid
>       2) mydomain.com is resolved by dnsmasq
>       3) somehost.mydomain.com is resolved by dnsmasq
>       4) someotherhost.mydomain.com is resolved by external servers
> 

You need something like this in /etc/dnsmasq.conf

local=mydomain.com
server=/someotherhost.mydomain.com/#

and put

192.168.10.1 mydomain.com
192.168.10.2 host1.mydomain.com
192.168.10.3 host2.mydomain.com

in /etc/hosts

You will need at least version 2.53 for the server=/<domain>/# syntax to
work.


HTH

Simon.