On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 02:55:08PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
>
> As a final question, if one wants dnsmasq to do local cacheing do you
> put 'nameserver 127.0.0.1' in the resolv.conf file and then provide
> the upstream dns server elsewhere in the configuration?
>
I think this is mostly explained by the dnsmasq man page:-
In order to configure dnsmasq to act as cache for the host on which it
is running, put
"nameserver 127.0.0.1" in /etc/resolv.conf to force local processes to
send queries to
dnsmasq. Then either specify the upstream servers directly to dnsmasq
using --server
options or put their addresses real in another file, say
/etc/resolv.dnsmasq and run
dnsmasq with the --resolv-file /etc/resolv.dnsmasq option. This second
technique al‐
lows for dynamic update of the server addresses by PPP or DHCP.
Does this mean that the configuration on the Raspberry Pi is correct?
(as described at the start of this thread)
Many, many tutorials one can find on the internet have /etc/resolv.conf
like this:-
search this.lan
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 8.8.8.8
I assume this is just plain wrong!
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Chris Green
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