On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 05:51:15PM +0100, Simon Kelley wrote: > Chris G wrote: > > Can dnsmasq provide an alternative name for a client? > > > > This is going on from my problem with a system that insists on calling > > itself garage.local when I want it to be called garage. > > > > Is there a way that I can tell dnsmasq that garage.local is also > > garage so that requests for the address of garage will get the address > > of garage.local? > > > > yes. > > > cname=garage,garage.local > > should do it. > It doesn't seem to work though. I have added the following to the end of /etc/dnsmasq.conf :-
cname=garage,garage.local I have killed and restarted dnsmasq (it's still providing DNS OK). However I can't ping or ssh to garage, but I can ping and ssh to garage.local. -- Chris Green