[Dnsmasq-discuss] Two quick questions about running dnsmasq under Mac OS X

[richardvoigt at gmail.com]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Mel Brands <bighype at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I've successfully installed and configured dnsmasq on my Mac laptop
> and I have two quick questions.
>
> 1) How do you quickly tell dnsmasq to reload config files and reload
> /etc/hosts (or wherever you have your hosts file)? The only way I know
> is to kill the process and then load the daemon...

sending SIGHUP (kill -HUP) will reload /etc/hosts and some other
configuration settings.  Some settings require a process restart
though, because they can only be changed during startup before
dropping root privileges.


>
> 2) When I run any ruby script from the command line, I notice that
> DirectoryService process still gets called whenever my script resolves
> an IP from a name. Is there a way to bypass DirectoryService
> completely on a Mac?

No idea, sorry.

>
> Thanks!
>
> Melanie
>
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