[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq for road warriors

richardvoigt at gmail.com richardvoigt at gmail.com
Tue Nov 13 00:11:43 GMT 2012


On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:05 PM, /dev/rob0 <rob0 at gmx.co.uk> wrote:

> > On 10/11/2012 15:54, /dev/rob0 wrote:
> > >Seems to me that dnsmasq is a better nscd replacement, and
> > >it has a place in mobile computing.
> > >
> > ># we use this dnsmasq as this system's own resolver
> > >no-resolv
>
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 05:46:10PM -0600,
>    richardvoigt at gmail.com wrote:
> > no-resolv is doing more harm than good.
> >
> > dnsmasq is smart enough to ignore 127.0.0.1 in /etc/resolv.conf
> > And it will automatically pick up DHCP-assigned DNS servers which
> > written there.
>
> But you don't understand. The point of dnsmasq on a laptop is to
> serve ONLY that machine and its local processes. /etc/resolv.conf
> must contain ONLY "nameserver 127.0.0.1". If there are other
> nameservers listed, the system resolver will be contacting them;
> possibly getting different results, and ... well, this discussion
> would not be relevant to the dnsmasq list.
>
>
I don't know where you got this piece of misinformation.  Multiple
nameserver entries in /etc/resolv.conf work fine, as long as the localhost
entry (pointing to dnsmasq) comes first.
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