[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq not working as DNS server for client machines

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Thu May 22 22:08:22 UTC 2014


On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:46:46PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> I seem to have spoken too soon with my transfer of dnsmasq to a
> different machine.
> 
> It's running on my desktop machine which is also an always on server.
> DNS is working fine for the desktop machine itself but it's not
> working for client machines.
> 
> DHCP is working though, so clients get an IP address OK and can talk
> to other machines on the LAN if I specify IP addresses rather than
> names.  
> 
> So how do I diagnose this?  It's on xubuntu 14.04 so it's made a
> little opaque by not being able view 'real' DNS servers anywhere 
> 
Sorry about that abrupt end.  Not much to add though.

As a general comment it would be very useful to be able easily to see
what DNS servers are being used.

-- 
Chris Green



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