Hi All, A bit confused here...
I only know enough about linux, etc. to be dangerous so forgive my confusion.. I have dnsmasq installed on Mac OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard. I installed via macports.. I am only using it as a dns server, not for dhcp (for the moment) I could NOT get it to work because my router constantly overwrites my resolv.conf file. So I set up dnsmasq.conf to read a separate file instead (resolv2.conf). Still did not work. I finally went into the dnsmasq.plist file and saw that /etc/resolv.conf was listed. I changed that and everything was fine. I have since made other changes to dnsmasq.conf and do not see my dnsmasq.plist updating. Is updating dnsmasq.conf supposed to re-write options to dnsmasq.plist? Where does dnsmasq get it's options from; dnsmasq.conf, dnsmasq.plist or both?? I have dnsmasq.conf set to read /etc/hosts as well as a separate hosts file I use for blocking around 16,000 sites. Apparently this is working fine as it does block the sites and doing a dig shows it is going to 127.0.0.1 for any site. YET there is nothing in my plist to indicate that dnsmasq is supposed to read a separate hosts file. This makes me believe idnsmasq gets it's options from both dnsmasq.conf and dnsmasq.plist... So I guess I have 2 questions: 1. is updating dsnmasq.conf supposed to pass variables to dnsmasq.plist? If so I don't think mine is.. Why? 2. What variables NEED to be in the .plist file as compared to the conf file? Thanks so much for any help! JP
