[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Patch dnsmasq documentation in README

Michael J. Giarlo leftwing at alumni.rutgers.edu
Wed Dec 1 21:18:44 EST 2010


On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 22:36, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> 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


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