Re: Pump, dhchp, dns and dnsmasq

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:12:09 +0000, Tixy wrote:

>> > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>> > maroon.                 0       IN      A       127.0.0.1
>> > 
>> > ;; Query time: 0 msec
>> > ;; SERVER: 192.168.0.100#53(192.168.0.100) ;; WHEN: Sun Feb  6
>> > 23:20:41 2011
>> > ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 40
>> 
>> This is the problem that I haven't been able to solve -- I was hoping
>> that it will return 192.168.0.100 instead of 127.0.0.1.
>> 
>> How can I fix it?
> 
> My /etc/hosts file on the server has an entry for the server. E.g.
> 
>   192.168.2.2 servername.home servername

Thanks! I was putting everything on the same line, 

  127.0.0.1 servername.home servername localhost

Now I separate them. 

> so that's probably the answer.

yep, I guess so, even IMHO it is not an ideal solution. I was hoping that 
I can configure everything on the dnsmasq side, and tried to use

# Don't read the hostnames in /etc/hosts
no-hosts

but that didn't work... Anyway,

Thanks

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