[Dnsmasq-discuss] Local ip for local names

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Hi, 

I don't know why, but previously I was able to get local IPs for local 
names, but not now. I'm wondering how to fix it. Here are the details. 

I use dnsmasq as my local DNS server. So whenever I refer to my local 
servers, I can refer to them by names everywhere. But now, only 

 dig myserverA

returns local ip (ie, short name without domain name). If I use FQDN, eg 
dig myserverA.mydomain, I'll get my external IP instead. I believe this 
is after I've enabled Wildcard DNS record for my external DNS resolving. 

I have to use Wildcard DNS record, so each of my local server can be 
resolved properly externally. E.g., I won't get errors like

  Domain of sender address me at myserverA.mydomain does not exist

In this case (keeping external Wildcard DNS records), how can I tell  
dnsmasq to override external Wildcard DNS and always give local names 
local IPs? 

I've put the "domain" and "search" entries in /etc/resolv.conf, like the 
following, but that doesn't help. 

  domain mydomain
  search mydomain
  nameserver 192.168.my.dnsmasq

Now, even my local proxy server setting is not working. My local proxy 
setting has always been:

 http_proxy=http://my-proxy:3128/

But now that everything will get an external IP instead, so proxying will 
always fail now. So is my local sendmail server. In fact, nothing is 
working now. I badly need to have that overriding feature works again. 

Thanks