On 09/05/2023 00:10, Buck Horn wrote:
On 08.05.2023 15:00:22, "public1020" wrote:
Thanks, dnsmasq does not support this feature.
Why would you think so when you have been pointed to the correct answer
from the docs?
Matus UHLAR even quoted the decisive sentence for you:
it does and the answer is listed in dnsmasq manual page, just where you
would search for it:
-A, --address=/<domain>[/<domain>...]/[<ipaddr>]
... Note that /etc/hosts and DHCP leases override this for individual
name
'address' would specify an IP address to return for any host in the
given domains, i.e. including subdomains, so its not fit to satisfy your
original request about an individual host name, e.g. for shadowing only
example.com, but none of its subdomains.
As the docs quoted by Matus UHLAR**state, you may use entries in
/etc/hosts to that purpose:
Just add some lines with the desired IP and hostname associations to
that file.
Of course, that may only work if you wouldn't prevent dnsmasq from
reading /etc/hosts.
So if your dnsmasq configuration would use the 'no-hosts' option (or if
you'd just like to keep things separated), you could configure
'addn-hosts' to point dnsmasq to a separate file with your custom host
definitions.
I will re-state all of this, to see if I have it right:
The OP wants example.com to return 1.2.3.4, but *.example.com to go up
the DNS tree and return the actual IP address.
Using -A/--address doesn't do this, it replies with 1.2.3.4 for
*.example.com as well as example.com, as documented (and presumably as
intended).
Setting example.com to be 1.2.3.4 in /etc/hosts or similar, and not
fiddling around with -A/--address should give the OP the required behaviour.
Is that an accurate summation?
Cheers,
Gary B-)
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