| The patch I have attached lets me get the behavior I wish out of |
| dnsmasq. I also include my version of dhclient-enter-hooks as |
| required for the switchover from pre-dnsmasq and dhclient. |
| |
| On 8/16/05, Joseph Tate <dragonstrider@gmail.com> wrote: |
| > I'm trying to use dnsmasq on a laptop in order to facilitate openvpn |
| > connections. As such, the only configuration option I'm concerned |
| > about is a single server=3D/example.com/192.168.0.1 line. |
| > |
| > The way I currently have it set up is I modified dhclient to write its |
| > resolv.conf data to /etc/resolv.conf.dhclient and configured |
| > /etc/dnsmasq.conf to look there for its upstream dns servers. |
| > /etc/resolv.conf is set to nameserver 127.0.0.1 |
| > |
| > All of this works great. When I start the openvpn service, it the |
| > routes, and queries to the domain in the server=3D line work just fine. |
| > |
| > The only problem is that the hostname for my system doesn't get set |
| > correctly. With the resolv.conf data written to something other than |
| > /etc/resolv.conf, the ifup scripts don't have a valid dns server to do |
| > the ipcalc call to set the laptop's hostname. If I start dnsmasq |
| > before the network comes up, something gets fubar'd. I'm not sure how |
| > to describe it exactly, but network services are slow to load, and |
| > restarting networking and dnsmasq doesn't solve the problem. Perhaps |
| > dnsmasq is answering the dhcp request when the network starts? |
| > Certainly not desired behavior. |
| > |
| > Anyway, my question: is there a way to have the best of both worlds? |
| > DHCP requests to another server, and DNS lookups that work at all |
| > times? |
| > |
| > My current best idea on how to solve this problem is modifying the |
| > dnsmasq initscript to tweak /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks to change where |
| > dhclient writes resolv.conf data, and fixing up /etc/resolv.conf on |
| > the fly to set 127.0.0.1 to the nameserver (and somehow keep the |
| > search domains intact), but I'm hoping that I'm just missing some key |
| > piece of the puzzle and that this problem has been solved before. Any |
| > insights? |
| > |
| > -- |
| > Joseph Tate |
| > Personal e-mail: jtate AT dragonstrider DOT com |
| > Web: http://www.dragonstrider.com |
| > |
