On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Adam Hardy <adam....@cyberspaceroad.com> wrote: > richardvo...@gmail.com on 25/01/10 21:14, wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Adam Hardy >> <adam....@cyberspaceroad.com> wrote: >>> I've got a gateway server running dnsmasq for dhcp on my LAN and I've got a >>> couple of problems with the host names of the dhcp clients. >>> >>> The first is a Belkin print server which picks up its ip address and passes >>> thro >>> its hostname MFD8FDC7. This appears in dnsmasq.leases - so I should be able >>> to >>> communicate with it now, right? >>> >>> There must be something missing from my dnsmasq config because I see now >>> that >>> any attempt to use the host names of dhcp clients from the gateway server >>> fail >>> with " unknown host ...". I'm on debian stable if that makes any difference >> >> Sounds like your gateway is not using dnsmasq for lookups. dnsmasq >> tells dhcp clients to use its services, but the gateway you will have >> to manually configure in /etc/resolv.conf to send requests to the >> local dnsmasq process. > > I mistakenly included the /etc/hosts file instead of the /etc/resolv.conf file > which would have been far more informative re this problem. > > It looks like this: > > adam@isengard:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf > domain isengard.localdomain > search isengard.localdomain > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > nameserver 194.74.65.68 > > Do I need to add more in there?
That should do it. Run netstat whilst dnsmasq is stopped, to see if any other dns-capable daemon could be binding port 53 and preventing dnsmasq from receiving the queries. > > Regards > Adam > > > _______________________________________________ > Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list > Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk > http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss >