Questions tagged [dnsmasq]

dnsmasq is a lightweight DHCP, DNS and TFTP server application for *nix platforms intended for use on small and home networks.

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dnsmasq not responding DHCP requests that don't follow a DHCP discover

I have an instance of dnsmasq running on network namespace X, and I run dhclient (or any other dhcp client) from within network namespace Y to obtain an IP address on a given interface. The two network namespaces are on the same openvswitch bridge,…
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DNSMasq doesn't resolve non-routable IPs on public domain names

Our DNSMasq is not able to resolve A, CNAME nor Alias records from public domains that specify private IP addresses. For example: $ nslookup > server 172.16.1.1 Default server: 172.16.1.1 Address: 172.16.1.1#53 > www.work-domain.com Server: …
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dnsmasq returns (false) "bogus" result for DNSSEC validation

I'm running a local Debian 8.1 installation with a DNSSEC-validating DNS-Resolver called dnsmasq (version 2.72-3+deb8u1). I set it up to return a SERVFAIL if it isn't able to validate a DNSSEC-enabled domain, i.e. if the domain has a DNSSEC entry it…
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OpenVPN routing: multiple default entries. OpenVPN client: iptables. DNS issues

I'm running an OpenVPN-Server (Debian 8) for privacy purposes when using public wifi. Hence, all network traffic of the client is intended to be handled over the VPN connection. The server and client config is given below. Server config: port…
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Work around windows automatically appending DNS suffix

At my workplace, our IT department manages a DNS server. My department works a lot with websites and to access staging servers we need to have certain domains map to those servers. Personally I just edit my hosts file, but our team is somewhat large…
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How to disable lbvirt network DNS

Is there a way to disable DNS in libvirt network? I want to have custom configured dnsmasq for local DNS caching but libvirt's dnsmasq holds 53 port.
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dnsmasq and lxc with wildcard DNS subdomains

I'm using LXC to create a new containers. All of them are using dnsmasq with DHCP to get their IP address and to have local DNS server. I setup a domain .lxc in dnsmasq. So every container will get DNS address .lxc. But I didn't found any solution…
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dig succeeds, nslookup fails (with dnsmasq as the server)

I installed dnsmasq on a machine of mine (It's a Kubuntu 12.04 LTS), backed only by /etc/hosts (no connection to the Internet until later). Now, if I dig mymachine, I get 192.168.0.1, but if I try to nslookup mymachine, I get: >> connection timed…
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How to config libvirt network setting about disabling dnsmasq "except-interface=lo"?

Here is the thing. My VMs run with libvirt and use default network libvirt-provide, and I've mad each VM registers its hostname to dnsmasq set by libvirt. so I want to look up its hostname for reachable. But the libvirt always enables…
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Built-in DNS server for Sonic wall?

I've got a Sonicwall TZ 215 that is currently being used as a firewall and DHCP server. Is there any built-in DNS server on this device I can use to map internal site names to IP addresses? I had this when I used DD-WRT in the form of DNSMasq.
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DNSMasq swallows local A-entries

When I query the ISP's DNS server for foo.example.com, it comes back with something like this: ;; ANSWER SECTION: foo.example.com. 159 IN A 192.168.40.20 (note that the IP address is a local one) When I do the same over DNSMasq, the response…
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Default http redirection when domain name requested, with a flashed dd-wrt router

i'm setting up a testing environment in my office and configured a router flashed with dd-wrt to be my dns. I configured the domain name in the router to mydomain.com, through Setup >> Basic Setup >> Optional Settings. I also have a web server with…
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How do I get Windows Domain Controller and Ubuntu dnsmasq to play nicely?

I've inherited "ownership" of a network which has a Windows 2003 Server running as a Domain Controller and file server (no IIS or DNS running). We also use an Ubuntu server running dnsmasq as an internal Name Server. This setup doesn't seem to have…
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Force to use specific DNS provider at network

OpenDNS offers a quite simple way for internet filtering by categories. Of course who could get the correct IP address can easily bypass the filter but it would be enough for my expectations. The bigger problem is that changing DNS provider at…
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Running dnsmasq as an authoritative DNS server

I am trying to implement a dynamic dns service for my computers. I have pointed h.lohray.com to my EC2 instance in the NS record of lohray.com and have installed dnsmasq on that system and have made sure to unblock the firewall port. For now, I have…
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