[Dnsmasq-discuss] Monthly Posting

[Gary R. Schmidt]

On 07/07/2024 05:40, CHOPPERGIRL via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote:
> Most of us are replying via the mailing list,
> and apparently the mailing list isn't very smart,
> and doesn't post our replies in the correct area
> if our mailing software doesn't "quote" them
> correctly.  I'm using Yahoo mail, and it doesn't
> quote at all.
> 
> So I found the response to my simple dnsmasq
> question quite arrogant and hostile, and so
> I dumped dnsmasq and used a Windows dns
> server solution instead.  Sorry, Linux community.
> 
> 
> All I wanted to know was how to tell dnsmasq
> on the command line, how to pass it an argument
> to use a DNS server ip address, instead of putting
> it in the conf file (that I can not modify).
> 
> This should be in paragraph one of the DNS man
> page, or at least in the command line switches
> section which needs to be rewritten in plain straight
> forward english, not technobabble gobbelty goop.
> 

Ah, unfortunately you have to learn that most - possibly all - mailing 
lists have unfortunate creatures whose arrogance is only exceeded by 
their ego, and whose knowledge is far smaller.

It's a problem, but banning them doesn't really help, they tend to 
nym-shift and come back harder, and very rarely their small amount of 
knowledge covers the exact problem someone asks about.  (It's also worse 
when the language of the mailing list is their second or third language, 
I find it amusing when they try and correct a native speaker's usage.  :-) )

But please don't blame mailman for Yahoo's failure to conform to 
long-established standards of email handling.  Mailman installations 
have been handling mailing lists for nigh-on twenty years, it works.

As to your OP, AFAIK (and I know little more than the man page) there is 
no way to update DNSmasq from the command line.  I've never had the need 
so I've never looked into it.

Sorry that you didn't get the answer you hoped for, and got sniped by 
the resident arsehole.

	Cheers,
		Gary	B-)