localhost or LAN addresses in /etc/hosts
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Dec 15 18:50:58 UTC 2008
Chris G wrote:
> Er, no, this is where we came in! I'm using dnsmasq on *one* machine
> in the LAN and that means I only have to edit *one* /etc/hosts and
> dnsmasq tells other machines on the network the contents of that one
> /etc/hosts via DNS.
Er, no. That's not what dnsmasq does. It uses your /etc/hosts (or
similar file) to prime its DNS cache.
--
derek
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