[Dnsmasq-discuss] addn-hosts and ttl
Simon Kelley
simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Thu Apr 11 17:55:27 BST 2013
On 10/04/13 22:09, fbcadmin wrote:
> Hello
> First thank you for dnsmasq. we've used it for a long time.
>
> We have a local hosts file, which may change a few times per day at the
> most.
> I've tried using this in /etc/dnsmasq.conf:
> addn-hosts=/fbc/dns/hosts-ona
>
> Which works. Except when hosts-ona changes dnsmasq does not seem to pick
> up the changes.
>
> Is there a setting to make it so dnsmasq monitors an addn-hosts file for
> changes?
>
No, (and it doesn't monitor /etc/hosts either, only /etc/resolv.conf)
You need to send the dnsmasq process SIGHUP to get it to re-read the
hosts file(s).
Cheers,
Simon.
> thank you
> Rob Fantini
>
>
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