From: Geert Stappers <stapp...@stappers.nl> Manual page was unaware that --local became a separate option.
Now matches the --server and --local section with what in option.c is: <screenshot> $ grep -e '{ "server"' -e '{ "local"' src/option.c { "server", 1, 0, 'S' }, { "local", 1, 0, LOPT_LOCAL }, $ </screenshot> --- man/dnsmasq.8 | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/dnsmasq.8 b/man/dnsmasq.8 index 6030e65..6950a23 100644 --- a/man/dnsmasq.8 +++ b/man/dnsmasq.8 @@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ Tells dnsmasq to never forward A or AAAA queries for plain names, without dots or domain parts, to upstream nameservers. If the name is not known from /etc/hosts or DHCP then a "not found" answer is returned. .TP -.B \-S, --local, --server=[/[<domain>]/[domain/]]<ipaddr>[#<port>][@<interface>][@<source-ip>[#<port>]] +.B \-S, --server=[/[<domain>]/[domain/]]<ipaddr>[#<port>][@<interface>][@<source-ip>[#<port>]] Specify IP address of upstream servers directly. Setting this flag does not suppress reading of /etc/resolv.conf, use \fB--no-resolv\fP to do that. If one or more optional domains are given, that server is used only for those domains @@ -492,10 +492,6 @@ flag which gives a domain but no IP address; this tells dnsmasq that a domain is local and it may answer queries from /etc/hosts or DHCP but should never forward queries on that domain to any upstream servers. -.B --local -is a synonym for -.B --server -to make configuration files clearer in this case. IPv6 addresses may include an %interface scope-id, eg fe80::202:a412:4512:7bbf%eth0. @@ -513,6 +509,12 @@ source address specified but the port may be specified directly as part of the source address. Forcing queries to an interface is not implemented on all platforms supported by dnsmasq. .TP +.B --local=[/[<domain>]/[domain/]] +is like +.B --server +but the DNS requests are handled locally. +So need to provide <ipaddr>[#<port>][@<interface>][@<source-ip>[#<port>]] +.TP .B --rev-server=<ip-address>[/<prefix-len>][,<ipaddr>][#<port>][@<interface>][@<source-ip>[#<port>]] This is functionally the same as .B --server, -- 2.36.1 _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss