Hello,
in an addition to an older thread:
On 21/10/2022 22:23, Michael Traxler wrote:
When you disable the DNS-server via
port=0
the /etc/hosts file is ignored and also the
addn-hosts=<fn>
is ignored.
If one wants to disable reading /etc/hosts when DNS is disabled, using
option "-h" is easy alternative which adds possibility to read other host
file.
/etc/hosts does job similar as /etc/ethers, and while the latter has to be
turned on by default using "-Z", /etc/hosts is usable at all times.
On 31.10.22 21:07, Simon Kelley wrote:
It's at least a documentation bug. I think the reasoning behind the
behaviour is that setting port=0 disables all the DNS functionality,
which can be useful for its own sake, but also saves machine
resources; no memory is allocated for cache and all the
configuration infrastructure for DNS is not initialised, hence
/etc/hosts doesn't get read.
It would be trivial to remove half a dozen "if (port != 0) { }"
lines from the code, and have all of the DNS stuff still live apart
from actually listening on port 53, but that's not necessarily an
improvement. There's not increase in functionality, since the same
behaviour can be configured simply by adding the the addresses to
the dhcp-host lines and that works with the existing code even when
port=0 is set.
My feeling is that the best fix to this is a heads-up in the man
page, but I'm happy to entertain arguments to the contrary.
On 02.11.22 09:53, Matus UHLAR - fantomas via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote:
I believe that /etc/hosts is generic database which is used for
name<->IP mapping wherever it's needed. This should imho include
static DHCP configuration.
I also believe that the resources part is not important nowadays.
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