dnsmasq is a lightweight DHCP, DNS and TFTP server application for *nix platforms intended for use on small and home networks.
Questions tagged [dnsmasq]
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How can I setup a Wilcard DNS Entry on pfSense?
How can I set up Wildcard DNS on a pfSense embedded device running pfSense 2.0?
Details:
pfSense uses dnsmasq as a DNS forwarder
Running the current pfSense release, 2.0
Running on a Netgate
M1n1wall embedded firewall.
I have root access via ssh…

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How to downgrade dnsmasq?
after upgrating to ubuntu 11.04, I lost dnsmasq.
When I run /usr/sbin/dnsmasq start I get
dnsmasq: junk found in command line
Apparently I need to downgrade dnsmasq but Package->Force version is not available for it in synaptic.

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DNSmasq configuration woes, how to make DHCP names served out of DNS entries
My DNSmasq configuration is as…

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dnsmasq: How to set alias domain / multiple DNS suffixes for local hostname resolution?
Is it possible to set multiple search domains via dnsmasq/DHCP? Due to some migration, I need multiple clients to be able to:
ping server.old-domain
ping server.new-domain
# both should work, .old-domain being an alias for .new-domain
I have tried…

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Configuring dnsmasq to filter A or AAAA queries
Can I configure dnsmasq to respond to either ipv4(A) or ipv6(AAAA) queries only?
I am using dnsmasq to forward queries from an internal subnet to a WAN connection.
Unfortunately, sometimes I will only have an ipv6 connection on the WAN interface,…

E. Ionescu
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How to block DNS over HTTPS using IPtables
I've recently started using iptables for the first time on my OpenWrt, Linux based router. Out of the box the OpenWrt firewall is very good, however, after wanting to do more advanced things with the firewall such as forced DNS, iptables looked like…

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Run 2 SSL servers on 1 debian Pi, both FQDNs,1 Nginx 1 apache, wrong certificate, is this SNI issue?
I'm forced to use Nginx on a.ddns.net and Apache for b.ddns.net (reverse proxy solution too tricky due to established setups). Real server names edited but both verified as resolving to same IP and SSL certs verified with OpenSSL.
Existing setups…

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Dynamic DNS (DDNS) updates from dnsmasq for use with bind9
Previously I ran dnsmasq on an OpenWRT to provide DNS and DHCP functionality, because this is, what it is intended for. I want to offload the DNS part to an already configured bind9 (running on Ubuntu), which is quite easy so far except the…

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SOCKS Proxy over DNS
I'm trying to implement something similar to the service provided by https://www.smartdnsproxy.com, where clients only need to change their DNS settings to connect to a HTTP/S or SOCKS5 proxy. I think I understand the individual components, but I'm…

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Host DNS not working with docker container
I have a probleme with docker on my archlinux kernel Linux 4.19.31-1-lts #1 SMP Sun Mar 24 09:29:16 CET 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ docker info return :
$ docker info …

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Cannot resolve some domains with dnsmasq
My machine runs ArchLinux, with NetworkManager and dnsmasq. Dnsmasq should forward all requests to Google's DNS 8.8.8.8, and therefore should simply act as a local cache in front of Google's DNS.
For some odd reason, some domains like…

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DNSmasq on 2 interfaces
SysInfo:
ubuntu 18.04
external access point (with its own internal linux system) => interface ap1, IP: 192.168.13.1
external access point (USB stick) => interface ap0, IP: 192.168.12.1
hostapd running on ap0
dnsmasq running without being binded to…

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Why making dnsmasq authoritative breaks CNAME resolution?
I have a CNAME set up in dnsmasq as
cname=ch1-lampe-bureau.swtk.info,switch-3
It is resolved correctly (switch-3 is a device which gets its IP via DHCP from dnsmasq):
root@rpi1 ~# host switch-3
switch-3 has address 10.200.0.123
root@rpi1 ~# host…

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Send a negative response to any AAAA DNS lookups
Neither my local networking equipment neither my ISP support IPv6. While some applications support restriction of DNS lookups to IPv4 addresses some others don't so these applications end up waiting until a timeout is triggered to proceed.
I am…

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How to let dnsmasq transfer a reverse zone?
Following the documentation for auth-zone, I tried to declare my dnsmasq server as authoritative for the 10.0.0.0/8 zone (I serve several IP sub-ranges in 10.x).
Unfortunately, whatever I try I end up with
Sep 07 14:37:36 bind named[6812]: transfer…

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