[Dnsmasq-discuss] dns server

[Linux Luser]

Maybe something like this will help:
https://gist.github.com/linuxluser/cf8f967c9ec8167e6fed

I tried to keep it minimal. Read the comments and change things to your
liking. Again, that conf file applies to the SERVER, which should be
running a standard version of dnsmasq, not the one that comes with
NetworkManager.


To address the other problem, NetworkManager has taken control of your
/etc/resolv.conf file and will pretty much overwrite it whenever it wants
(usually during DHCP renewals). There are ways to work around this, but
it's going to start getting complicated. The easiest thing to do would be
to turn off network-manager and configure your interfaces via
/etc/network/interfaces file instead. Again, this is for the server only.
For other machines (clients) on your network, network-manager would
probably work just fine. Despite network-manager's insistence that it can
be used for servers, there are still issues with that idea (namely, you'd
have to do away with all the tried-and-true network configuration files and
tools that most use on servers).

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Thiago Farina <tfransosi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 11:38 PM, Linux Luser <linuxluser at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> After doing this, my /etc/resolv.conf contains only 127.0.0.1.
>
> I did try updating it by running the following command lines:
>
> $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure resolvconf
>
> And
>
> $ sudo resolvconf -u
>
> And nothing were able to pull the nameservers from my router now. :/
>
> I had to manually edit it in order to get back access to internet.
>
> Why is that? What updates resolv.conf from my router's config?
>
> --
> Thiago Farina
>



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