[Dnsmasq-discuss] all I wanted to do was temporarily dnsMASQ some addresses

[Bill C Riemers]

I'm abit confused here about the request.

He doesn't want to change system files so he can put everything in a shell script.

Why can't one change system files from a shell script???

That said, given his hypothesis that he can't do it, I would say then the solution is simply to specify alternate files in the command line.

e.g. A combination of -h and -H options would allow the specification of a temporary hosts file generated by the script...

Of course he still needs to update system files for the initial install of dnsmasq.   You aren't going to have any effect if you haven't update /etc/resolv.conf to point localhost...


Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "sven falempin" <sven.falempin at gmail.com>
To: jidanni at jidanni.org
Cc: dnsmasq-discuss at thekelleys.org.uk
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 8:54:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] all I wanted to do was temporarily dnsMASQ	some addresses

/etc/hosts is prime 


On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 7:06 AM, < jidanni at jidanni.org > wrote: 


Why is this such a giant hassle? 

All I want to do is convert these three commands, 

pdnsd-ctl add cname localhost radioscanningtw.jidanni.org 999999 
pdnsd-ctl record radioscanningtw.jidanni.org delete 
pdnsd-ctl dump radioscanningtw.jidanni.org 
pdnsd-ctl dump #everything 

into their dnsmasq equivalents. 
The stuff on the dnsmasq page doesn't work. 
as resolveip shows me. nothing happens. 

I'm on Debian. 
Yes OK I will grudgingly do 
/etc/init.d/dnsmasq stop 
and the run a shell script. 

All I want to do is make those addresses resolve to localhost 
temporarily, do some work, and then remove the address diversion. 

I already submitted 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=732049 

Please don't say I must change system files. I want to put everything in 
a shell script. 

Also despite the man page, I can't get a fine grained log of every 
little action on STDERR. 

Nor can I get a full dump of what is currently in dnsmasq's brain. 

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