In the man page in the section on "-S, --local, --server" it says
(among other things) :-
Also permitted is a -S 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.
--local is a synonym for --server to make configuration files clearer
in this
case.
Does this mean that "a domain but no IP address" can only be given
with the -S flag? I suspect not but it's not immediately clear.
Looking at the syntax given in the first line it would seem that
-S, --local and --server are *exactly* the same and one can choose
which to use to make the configuration file more user friendly.
E.g. I have in my dnsmasq configuration file:-
local=/zbmc.eu/
since my static IP home system is at zbmc.eu and I give the various systems
here names like esprimo.zbmc.eu, backup.zbmc.eu and so on.
Presumably I could change the above line to:-
server=/zbmc.eu/
and everything would work the same. Presumably the -S option is only for
use in the dnsmasq command line
--
Chris Green
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