Re: dnsmasq for simple names

2016-01-15 Thread 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 > 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 dnsma

Re: dnsmasq for simple names

2016-01-14 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan 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 a

Re: dnsmasq for simple names

2016-01-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
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 "--

Re: dnsmasq for simple names

2016-01-14 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I want to set up a local dnsmasq server to resolve local hostnames on > my LAN. I'm not (for the moment) concerned with DHCP, just DNS. I'd > like to do this without defining a local doman, so that host foo just > resolves to foo's IP

dnsmasq for simple names

2016-01-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
I want to set up a local dnsmasq server to resolve local hostnames on my LAN. I'm not (for the moment) concerned with DHCP, just DNS. I'd like to do this without defining a local doman, so that host foo just resolves to foo's IP address. The dnsmasq.conf file appears to allow this because defining