dnsmasq for simple names

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 19:45 +0100, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 15:48 +0100, Tom H wrote:
> 
> 
> > > Assuming that your local network is 192.168.1.0 and your local
> > > domainname is "poc".
> > > 
> > > 1) If you run dnsmasq on the clients and the server:
> > > 
> > > - set a domain in your client and server hostname configs
> > > 
> > > - run dnsmasq on the clients with "
> > > --server=/poc/ip_address_of_server
> > > --rev-server=192.168.1.0/24,ip_address_of_server"
> > 
> > Thanks for replying, but I'm not sure this is what I want:
> 
> You're welcome.
> 
> 
> > 1) I'm trying not to set any domain, just use local simple
> > (unqualified) names.
> 
> How will the resolver know whether "patrick1" (example host from my
> earlier email) is a meant to be resolved via a local or an upstream
> server?

Because that's what domain-needed does. It will only try to resolve
upstream if the name has a domain part.

> > 
> [...]

> I've just downloaded and expanded the dnsmasq rpm. Going through
> "/etc/dnsmasq.conf", IIUC, for my previous example:
> 
> server=/poc/192.168.1.111
> server=/1.168.192.in-addr.arpa/192.168.1.111
> local=/poc/

That appears to work. I guess I have to read the docs more carefully.

Thanks again.

poc