[Dnsmasq-discuss] Rather basic question - how do you tell dnsmasq what upstream DNS servers to use?

[William Edwards]

Use --server.

Met vriendelijke groeten,

William Edwards

----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Green (cl at isbd.net)
Date: 10/03/20 17:41
To: dnsmasq-discuss at thekelleys.org.uk
Subject: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Rather basic question - how do you tell dnsmasq what upstream DNS servers to use?

I'm feeling really silly, I've been using dnsmasq for several years
running it on a dedicated Raspberry Pi on the LAN to provide local DNS.

It's been working perfectly OK but just a very short while ago the
Google DNS server at 8.8.8.8 went down for a while and it's what I
(appear to) use as the upstream DNS.

How and where does one set dnsmasq's upstream DNS? Is it the following
line in /etc/dhcpcd.conf :-

   /etc/dhcpcd.conf:static domain_name_servers=192.168.1.4 8.8.8.8 fd51:42f8:caae:d92e::1

The file /run/dnsmasq/resolv.conf appears to be derived directly from
the above:-

   chris at newdns$ more resolv.conf
   # Generated by resolvconf
   nameserver 192.168.1.4
   nameserver 8.8.4.4
   nameserver fd51:42f8:caae:d92e::1

The Raspberry Pi running dnsmasq is 192.168.1.4 on the LAN here, I'm
running dnsmasq version 2.76.

Would I be better with two unrelated DNS servers in the above
configuration, e.g. a Google one and one from my ISP?

--
Chris Green

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