Comments on: How to Install and Configure dnsmasq

By: iceflatline

iceflatline — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:33:33 +0000

Greg, my pleasure. Thanks for taking the time to comment.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:27:55 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to type this up. it answered some nagging questions and ihmo, is a lot easer to read then the docs at thekellys.

By: iceflatline

iceflatline — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:04:49 +0000

Sudhanshu, you’re welcome. Thanks for the kind comment.

By: Sudhanshu

Sudhanshu — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:28:14 +0000

Excellent article. Great work and Thanks

By: iceflatline

iceflatline — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:37:55 +0000

David, thanks! Good points. I do find, however, that the pfSense implementation of dnsmasq lacks some of the configuration options available in the stand-alone version. No worries though, pfSense more than makes up for it in so many other ways.

By: David Szpunar

David Szpunar — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:28:05 +0000

Also note that dnsmasq is included in pfSense (from another of your posts) with a very easy web interface since you are running that now. Easy to override DNS entries as needed or for entire domains.

By: iceflatline

iceflatline — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:16:02 +0000

James, thanks for your comment and question. I’m afraid I don’t have much experience with dd-wrt. I understand though that it does run dnsmasq, or at least some variation of it. According to the dnsmasq FAQ, it may be that your Win hosts are not using DNS at all but rather trying to look up the name using WINS. The solution is to make sure that all your hosts have a domain suffix set or set a domain in your DHCP server options. Check out the dnsmasq FAQ for more information. In addition, I recommend flushing the DNS cache on your Win hosts.

c:\> ipconfig /flushdns

Hope this helps. Good luck, and let me know what your solution was.

By: James

James — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:49:41 +0000

I forgot to mention that I have a linux host which works without appending the domain suffix

By: James

James — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:48:32 +0000

I’ve got a similar solution, though running through dd-wrt.

Any idea why Windows hosts, in my case Windows 7 and 2008 R2, can resolve internal hosts with nslookup fine but when I try ping those hosts it won’t work unless I append the domain name suffix.

By: iceflatline

iceflatline — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:05:14 +0000

Kris, you’re welcome. Thanks for the kind compliment. Good look with your home net.