localhost or LAN addresses in /etc/hosts

[Chris G]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:17:53PM +0100, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
> > dnsmasq uses the entries in /etc/hosts to provide information to other
> > machines on the LAN.  Thus it *needs* an entry for isbd somewhere to
> > tell other machines what isbd's address is.
> 
> Dnsmasq _can_ use the entries from "/etc/hosts" but it can also use 
> entries from a separate file e.g. "/etc/hosts.dnsmasq" (I think that's 
> the filename proposed in the config file). I would suggest you 
> use "/etc/hosts" only for the localhost entry and "/etc/hosts.dnsmasq" 
> for everything else. Then the resolver asks dnsmasq for everything except 
> localhost.
> 
Then how does the machine where dnsmasq is running (192.168.1.4) get local
addresses? The other machines on the LAN use 192.168.1.4 for DNS and
that's fine with a file such as /etc/hosts.dnsmasq but 192.168.1.4
can't use 192.168.1.4 as it's DNS can it?

-- 
Chris Green