[Dnsmasq-discuss] dns server

[Linux Luser]

I'm not sure if NetworkManager's version is better or worse for your case.
My understanding was that it is specifically configured to provide DNS
services to the localhost only. I think you should install the regular
dnsmasq for your distro if you are using it as a core service for your
whole network.

On Debian-based systems, for example:

$ sudo apt-get install dnsmasq


The /etc/dnsmasq.conf file for Debian contains lots of useful defaults as
well as verbose comments above almost every option.

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Thiago Farina <tfransosi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:56 PM, Linux Luser <linuxluser at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Are you running dnsmasq through NetworkManager on the server or the
> client?
> Yes, I'm running it through NetworkManager on the server. :/
>
> I have this in my NetworkManager.conf:
>
> $ cat /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
> [main]
> plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
> dns=dnsmasq
>
> no-auto-default=84:2B:2B:7C:96:69,
>
> [ifupdown]
> managed=false
>
> Is it better to run it standalone? How can I change this?
>
> > The version of dnsmasq for NetworkManager is compiled with different
> options
> > than standard dnsmasq installs (those that come as a package for a
> distro).
> >
> > If the /etc/dnsmasq.conf file you showed is the one that's on your
> server,
> > then you need to supply at least one more 'server' option to specify an
> > upstream server for queries that dnsmasq doesn't know the answers to.
> >
> > So, in addition to "server=/mydomain.org/192.168.0.101", you need to
> add:
> >
> > server=8.8.8.8
> >
> > That will tell dnsmasq to forward queries it doesn't know about upstream.
> > You can have more than one 'server=' line.
> >
> >
> Right. I will add this line to dnsmasq.conf as well.
>
> --
> Thiago Farina
>
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