DNSmasq is a lightweight DNS forwarder, DHCP and TFTP server, designed to provide DNS (and optionally DHCP and TFTP) services to a small-scale network.
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Internet connection sharing without Network Manager
I followed these instructions for setting up a shared internet connection with iptables. Specifically, I:
Added a network interface for my second NIC in /etc/network/interfaces like so:
auto eth1
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Where has the /var/run/nm-dns-dnsmasq.conf file gone? [duplicate]
In 12.04 I could find out which nameservers are registered by "cat"ing the
/var/run/nm-dns-dnsmasq.conf
file, but now in 13.04 this file has gone. Where is it or how else can I get this list?
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Local DNS resolver + dnsmasq in Ubuntu 12.04?
I need a local DNS resolver because my ISP DNS is seriously broken and breaks, in turn, many networks scripts.
Before Precise I could just install unbound and add 127.0.0.1 as a prepended name server ...
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DNS not working in XBMCbuntu [closed]
I recently updated my XBMCbuntu from 11.10 Eden to 12.10 Frodo. I did a fresh installation since I thought that I didn't have so much data to preserve. Now I can't install any add-ons, I just get a ...
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Why does Ubuntu spends so much time setting the network at startup?
Booting got very slow about the time I began testing Ubuntu 12.10 quantal. I think networking is one of the causes. I suspect networking is doing a lot of work that is unnecessary (since it was very ...
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juju, dnsmasq and `.localdomain`
I'm trying to setup an Ubuntu private cloud infrastructure on a virtual environment via learning from
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/TestingMAAS and
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Is there a dnsmasq's “address=/” equvilent in isc-dhcp-server?
I previously had Ubuntu 12.04 x64 running dnsmasq & tftpd-hpa & nfs for PXE boot
I currently have Ubuntu 12.10 x64 running isc-dhcp-server & tftpd-hpa & nfs for PXE boot (from a clean ...
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What's the point of dnsmasq in NetworkManager?
I very recently came to realize that the caching is disabled by default on the dnsmasq that is integrated with NetworkManager. In my mind, that defeats the point and makes dnsmasq a redundant layer in ...
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What is my DNS server?
My /etc/resolv.conf looks like this:
# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver ...
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Is dnsmasq not loading because of a Network Manager conflict?
I'm on 12.10, and have always used dnsmasq. A few days ago I noticed strange messages during boot:
NetworkManager[1316]: <warn> DNS: plugin dnsmasq update failed
dnsmasq[1302]: failed to create ...
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lost internet connection when upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10
I don't have Virtualbox and I'm not really good with codes and stuff, but I updated my machine from 12.04 to 12.10 and now the internet is not working. The only message I got was 'nautilus has not ...
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DSL through pppoeconf works but through Network Manager stops some sites from loading in browsers?
I am having Ubuntu 12.04.
DSL through pppoeconf(connecting at boot time) works without any problem but connecting through Network Manager stops some sites from (fully)loading in browsers ?
Disabling ...
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ubuntu server not resolving LAN hostnames
Bit stuck here.
I have 2 machines that cannot resolve LAN hostsnames, unless there are specific entries in /etc/hosts
But other machines on the LAN can resolves hostnames.
My LAN:
1 x Cisco ...
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VPN dnsmasq name resolution
I have a VPN setup using pptpd on my linode box runing Ubuntu 12.10.
I also have dnsmasq configured to intercept requests for a few select domain names. My intention is to redirect for those few ...
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How can I disable the DNS that Network Manager uses?
Ubuntu uses a DNSMasq instance for Network Manager starting in 12.04 - how can I disable it?
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Route complete TLD (*.dev for example) to 127.0.0.1
For development purposes I want all DNS requests to the .dev TLD to forward to my own PC.
The hosts file does not suffice. I use multiple domains and also multiple subdomains. I would have to add a ...
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Android device unable to obtain ip address connecting to AP created with Hostapd
I have a wired internet connection that works behind an authenticated proxy server.
I followed the steps mentioned here and managed to create a hotspot which my google nexus 7 detects. However, it ...
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Do I need dnsmasq?
When I nmap localhost get this:
53/tcp open domain dnsmasq 2.59
What is it and do I really need it?
I tried to remove it with
sudo apt-get remove dnsmasq-base
but it said if I would continue it ...
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Dnsmasq has changed the way it works in 12.10 - can someone point me to documentation or info on the changes
The way dnsmasq works with 12.10 has changed again, from 12.04. I have searched the Ubuntu documentation and Google for further info , without success.
Basically in 12.04 , dnsmasq moved the contents ...
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dnsmasq works in terminal, but not applications in Ubuntu 12.04
I am attempting in effect to add Server=/example.com/11.22.33.44 to the configuration of dnsmasq in order to route queries for example.com to a specific nameserver. To implement this I did the ...
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Network manager Internet sharing and dnsmasq conflict
I am sharing internet from eth1 to eth2. I do this by editing the eth2 properties and setting method to Shared to other computers.
I also use dnsmasq for dns caching. Now if I enable Internet ...
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Restore dnsmasq-base. Howto?
I have Ubuntu (12.04 64bit) running using VMWare Player.
I accidentally removed dnsmasq-base and therefore also network-manager + network-manager-gnome.
How can i re-install these without any ...
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Can not restart dnsmasq due to “ configuration syntax check [fail]”
I restart dnsmasq and get
$ sudo /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart
* Restarting DNS forwarder and DHCP server configuration syntax check [fail]
From where and how can I troubleshooting?
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dnsmasq: failed to create listening socket for port 53: Address already in use
I was setting up a server as in the below link
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Dnsmasq
root@user-desktop:/etc/init.d# sudo apt-get install dnsmasq
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency ...
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How to change dnsmasq port?
I am using port 53 for my vpn, and I need to use port 53. I changed the port of dnsmasq, connected openVPN, and now request are unable to resolve errors.
sudo dnsmasq -p 5642
. Is there a way to ...
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Running 12.04 as a gateway - resolvconf, dhclient and dnsmasq integration
I have a gateway server which is set up originally with Ubuntu desktop 12.04 - perhaps a mistake, I don't know, something to bear in mind.
I ripped out network-manager and now want to get ...
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Using Juju with private Openstack cloud deployment?
I'm seeing a number of problems trying to use Juju with our internally deployed Openstack cloud. Most of this appears to be centered around DNS host resolution as well as the need to deal with our ...
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How to prevent Juniper Network Connect breaking DNS resolutions
Juniper Network Connect has been an issue on 64bit linux for quite sometime. I have found 2 solutions to the Java issue (Solution 1 and 2) but now I am struggling with a new issue.
Network connect ...
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Configuring the dnsmasq instance started by connection sharing in NetworkManager
I've got a laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 that is sharing its wifi connection to another machine through the eth0 interface using NetworkManager. This seems to be done by dnsmasq.
Now I need to set up ...
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How do I enable DNS caching in the NetworkManager-controlled dnsmasq?
Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 uses dnsmasq to perform DNS lookups, but it is not configured to cache these results. (I have checked this by using dig to resolve names and I do not see a large improvement in ...
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dnsmasq not running
i installed ubuntu 12.04 on a netbook with 16GB SSD. To keep the installation small i used the mini.iso i got from here.
Everything worked fine, but i noticed that dnsmasq does not get started by ...
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why do none of my local servers resolve
When I try to ping or browse using a web browser certain domains names that we host on our local network, it does not work. Yet dig, nslookup correctly return their details. What do I need to do to ...
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DNS sometimes works, but it is very slow.
I am having DNS problems since upgrading to Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) from Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) yesterday.
DNS sometimes works, but it is very slow.
I have read the blog post DNS in ...
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12.04 VPN/resolv.conf issues
According to http://www.stgraber.org/2012/02/24/dns-in-ubuntu-12-04/ resolv.conf contains only a single record for local dnsmasq server
When I connect to OpenVPN server using network-manager-openvpn ...
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Pushing forward-lookup zones to VPN clients' dnsmasq configuration
Ubuntu 12.04 uses a nice little automagic dnsmasq configuration for handling name resolution across DNS connections so that name resolution happens properly.
When I connect to my OpenVPN server at ...
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Why did I have to remove resolvconf to get dnsmasq to work again?
Yesterday I upgraded to Precise and dnsmasq stopped working. That is, DNS queries to localhost were dnsmasq is listening (127.0.0.1) were refused.
Removing resolvconf (apt-get remove resolvconf) and ...
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dnsmasq sometimes resolves things, sometimes it doesn't
Trying to resolve:
nslookup testserverinlocaldns
Server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53
** server can't find testserverinlocaldns: NXDOMAIN
After 10 seconds everything is ...
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How do I disable local DNS caching?
I have a small private LAN with 6 Ubuntu systems. To improve performance and simplify maintenance I implemented a DNS server on my Debian firewall/router (dig shows 0ms on repeat lookups).
Will I ...
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What other options are there apart from localnet in dnsmasq?
I was wondering if DNSMASQ had any other options in it's configuration files than localnet?
I would like to define a DNS Server to use in the DNSMASQ configuration file.
Rather like this:
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Configure DNSMASQ to use /etc/hosts file
I have installed DNSMASQ but it was not starting as 53 port was busy.
I found out that ubuntu already had dnsmasq package and it's working.
Now the problem is...I just want to be able to resolve my ...
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Why doesn't resolv.conf remember dns addresses?
I have installed dnsmasq and added nameserver 127.0.0.1 to the resolv.conf file so I can use wildcards in my apache configuration. But every time I restart the computer or change Wi-Fi connection I ...
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Access a virtual host on a server in VirtualBox directly
The server: Ubuntu 10.10 Server as guest in a VirtualBox (IP 192.168.178.91).
Simple Question: I want to access a virtual host named 'example.server' from outside my virtual box by simply using a ...
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resolv.conf auto reset by dnsmasq after install libvirt-bin
After I install libvirt-bin and ubuntu-virt-server, etc., my resolv.conf gets overwritten by dnsmasq about every hour.
I haven't installed network-manager and resolvconf. When I search for dnsmasq I ...
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VirtualBox Ubuntu Server with DNS using dnsmasq
I just want to have a local server inside my VirtualBox that offers DNS functionality like www.example.local => 127.0.0.1. My host operating system is Ubuntu 11.10 and guest is Ubuntu 10.10.
On my ...
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localhost subdomain wildcard
I'm trying to have *.localhost pointing at 127.0.0.1.
I read this post which is quite recent and looks promising but dnsmasq can't bind port 53:
* Starting DNS forwarder and DHCP server dnsmasq ...
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How do I replace a cable modem router with my own server as DHCP?
My ISP gave me a really crappy router-modem-combination that lacks basic features. For instance you can't assign a constant ip to the mac adress of a client PC. I run a server for my home ...
