On Jul 18, 2007, at 11:32 AM, Mankuthimma wrote: AFAIK, dnsmasq only provides DNS caching services. Whereas the OP is looking to host a local domain - mxdomain.in which can only be done in a full-fledged DNS system such as Bind. Not true. dnsmasq will read /etc/hosts (or another file with the same format, if you prefer) and serve both forward and reverse lookups from it. It'll lookup and cache anything it can't resolve from local files. I use it all the time for providing local DNS views on private networks. It's a nice, lightweight solution. It also comes with an integrated DHCP server. It's a very handy thing to run on a box that's serving as a NAT gateway. |