I'm in the process of replacing an old home server with a new one,
Slackware based. The old machine uses bind, which is slow, horrible to
set up, and overkill for a small home network. I'm really happy with the
lookup speed I'm seeing from dnsmasq. But I've got something badly
configured, and I
Giacomo Tazzari wrote:
Hello Paul!
If I had to guess, I think you have a line like:
127.0.0.1 sms
in your /etc/hosts file.
Unless otherwise specified with the "no-hosts" option, dnsmasq takes
/etc/hosts into account for resolving names.
If it's so, "sms" would resolv to 127.0.0.1 for
I've used dnsmasq as a local network DHCP/DNS server for several years,
running in a small Slackware based server. After a few initial set up
problems, it worked flawlessly for years.
Recently I decided that I had to rebuild the server. It was running out
of storage space and I was getting bor
