On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 22:36, Dan Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > > However, on further reading, I don't think we should actually need to > touch the dnsmasq configuration at all. It is the job of dnsmasq to read > /etc/hosts and serve up DNS requests found in that file, along with any > other configured values, so assuming the --no_hosts flag hasn't been set > for dnsmasq, the _real_ steps to use dnsmasq are: > > 1. Ensure that localhost / public.opensrf / private.opensrf are set up > in /etc/hosts correctly > > 2. Start dnsmasq > > 3. Ensure that "nameserver 127.0.0.1" is the first line in > /etc/resolv.conf. > > I just ran through that process here, and it works with an > out-of-the-box Fedora dnsmasq configuration. >
Confirmed that this works on Ubuntu 10.10 as well. Thanks, Dan! -Mike
