On Aug 6, 2007, at 10:50 AM, Adam Hardy wrote:
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?
If the machine has a fixed IP, you want that on the /etc/hosts line for
its name, generally speaking. Putting it on the same line as 127.0.0.1
can confuse some software.
So if you have a machine named foo.bar.net with an IP of 192.168.127.50,
the /etc/hosts entry would look like this:
192.168.127.50 foo.bar.net foo
This associates the names "foo.bar.net" and "foo" with that IP.
I'm not entirely clear on what you're trying to do, but dnsmasq can
probably serve DNS records for your DHCP clients if you configure it
properly. If you explain a little more what you're trying to do and