[Dnsmasq-discuss] Use special address 0.0.0.0 for DNS
Simon Kelley
simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Wed Jun 16 09:03:57 UTC 2021
On 16/06/2021 09:10, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:
> Hi, from the dnsmasq man page:
>
>> The special address 0.0.0.0 is taken to mean
>> "the address of the machine running dnsmasq"
>
> This is for DHCP.
> Can I do the same for DNS queries, in some way?
> So that I could map "webserver" to the dnsmasq IP,
> and DNS clients would be able to bookmark and use http://webserver,
> even if the dnsmasq IP is dynamic.
Not using 0.0.0.0, this functionality is provided a different way, see
--interface-name
in the man page. That should do what you want nicely.
Cheers,
Simon.
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