Hi Chris, I think you create some file, for exaqmple /etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/hosts.conf, containing addn-hosts=/etc/hosts.dnsmasq. Then you would have to create hosts.dnsmasq with hosts(5) format. Place odin there.
1.2.3.4 odin You could use some hook to NetworkManager to use create special file only for selected network. But I never did something like that, I cannot help you with that. But I think you should try to ask LAN administrator to configure DNS and DHCP so that you do not have to invent something yourself. Maybe there is a name already that you do not know about. Cheers, Petr -- Petr Menšík Software Engineer Red Hat, http://www.redhat.com/ email: pemen...@redhat.com PGP: 65C6C973 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Green" <c...@isbd.net> To: dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk Sent: Friday, March 3, 2017 4:49:59 PM Subject: [Dnsmasq-discuss] What's the easiest way to add some names to default dnsmasq in debian/ubuntu? In Ubuntu systems (and maybe debian, not sure about this) dnsmasq is run my NetworkManager to provide local DNS, the process shows up as:- nobody 1470 1022 0 15:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --no-resolv --keep-in-foreground --no-hosts --bind-interfaces --pid-file=/var/run/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.pid --listen-address=127.0.1.1 --cache-size=0 --conf-file=/dev/null --proxy-dnssec --enable-dbus=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.dnsmasq --conf-dir=/etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d Is there any easy way to get it to recognise some local names? I have (in particular) a BeagleBone black on one LAN I use and it would be really handy to be able to call it 'odin' rather than have to find its IP address every time. DHCP for the LAN is provided by a router which, sadly, doesn't seem to know about local names. Ideally 'odin' should only be present when it actually *is* present (i.e. when I'm connected to the specific LAN where it exists), but this isn't absolutely necessary. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss