[Dnsmasq-discuss] Optimal DNS settings

[Adam Hardy]

dnsmasq has run happily on my system now for about 3 years and therein lies the 
problem. There's a config option I use that I now suspect might be causing a 
problem.

I have a simple gateway box connecting to a DSL modem. It runs dhclient to get 
the DHCP info from the modem, and dnsmasq to offer DHCP services to the 
workstations on the LAN.

For reasons I don't recall, I set up my dhclient.conf with

"prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1"

However in the logs dnsmasq says it's ignoring 127.0.0.1 because it's a local 
interface and I run apache on the machine too and it complains at start-up 
although I can't find the log message now.

I also have a network problem whose solution is to try to reduce the number of 
hops on my network path between me and a server in the States, which is why I'm 
looking at this now.

Should I take out that prepend statement? Thanks for any advice,

Adam