Re: DNS problem on local network

From: Adam Hardy <adam.ant(at)cyberspaceroad.com>
Date: Mon Aug 06 2007 - 13:50:21 EDT

Douglas Allan Tutty on 06/08/07 14:27, wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:39:56PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:

>> I installed dnsmasq to run DNS and DHCP servers on my little home network
>> of 4 PCs and a couple of laptops, and everything was going fine, internet
>> browsing, ssh, ftp by IP address etc.
>>
>> Now I am trying to get DNS to work for local machines but it won't
>> co-operate. I spent the last couple of hours pouring over HOWTOs and FAQs
>> trying to work out the problem but I'm stuck with a few errors messages
>> which I suspect point to something totally obvious to those in the know.

> 
> Please send us your /etc/hosts file.  Every box needs a minimal
> /etc/hosts file with at least its own hostname (though I'v never used
> DHCP).  The box running dnsmasq should have all the hosts on your
> network listed in /etc/hosts for dnsmasq to read.

adam@gondor:~$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       localhost localhost.localdomain

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes

ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

So I should put gondor in there on the same line as the localhost?

And on the dnsmasq box it's the same. I can enter the IP address of the box's NIC on the internal network into /etc/hosts because it's fixed, but all the DHCP clients?

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Received on Mon Aug 6 13:50:51 2007