On 07/07/2024 05:40, CHOPPERGIRL via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote:
Most of us are replying via the mailing list,
and apparently the mailing list isn't very smart,
and doesn't post our replies in the correct area
if our mailing software doesn't "quote" them
correctly. I'm using Yahoo mail, and it doesn't
quote at all.
So I found the response to my simple dnsmasq
question quite arrogant and hostile, and so
I dumped dnsmasq and used a Windows dns
server solution instead. Sorry, Linux community.
All I wanted to know was how to tell dnsmasq
on the command line, how to pass it an argument
to use a DNS server ip address, instead of putting
it in the conf file (that I can not modify).
This should be in paragraph one of the DNS man
page, or at least in the command line switches
section which needs to be rewritten in plain straight
forward english, not technobabble gobbelty goop.
Ah, unfortunately you have to learn that most - possibly all - mailing
lists have unfortunate creatures whose arrogance is only exceeded by
their ego, and whose knowledge is far smaller.
It's a problem, but banning them doesn't really help, they tend to
nym-shift and come back harder, and very rarely their small amount of
knowledge covers the exact problem someone asks about. (It's also worse
when the language of the mailing list is their second or third language,
I find it amusing when they try and correct a native speaker's usage. :-) )
But please don't blame mailman for Yahoo's failure to conform to
long-established standards of email handling. Mailman installations
have been handling mailing lists for nigh-on twenty years, it works.
As to your OP, AFAIK (and I know little more than the man page) there is
no way to update DNSmasq from the command line. I've never had the need
so I've never looked into it.
Sorry that you didn't get the answer you hoped for, and got sniped by
the resident arsehole.
Cheers,
Gary B-)
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