[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq to provide public DNS service

T o n g mlist4suntong at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 30 13:03:07 BST 2016


Does no reply means impossible, or just nobody has look into it yet?

On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 03:28:02 +0000, T o n g wrote:

> If I'm to provide DNS service to the public (outside my local network)
> using dnsmasq, how to do it, e.g., how to set the listen-address? It
> didn't work out of the box after I installed it in my Ubuntu (16.04 LTS
> xenial) so I changed to the following, but it stops working:
> 
>     $ cat /etc/dnsmasq.d/public.conf # listen to public
>     listen-address=0.0.0.0 # provide only DNS service and disable DHCP
>     and TFTP on it no-dhcp-interface=eth0
> 
>     $ dig +short docs.google.com ;; connection timed out; no servers
>     could be reached
> 
>     $ netstat -ulnp | grep :53 (Not all processes could be identified,
>     non-owned process info
> 	 will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)
>     udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:53
> 0.0.0.0:*                           -
>     udp6       0      0 :::53                   :::*
> 
> 
> Please help.
> Thanks.





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