localhost or LAN addresses in /etc/hosts

[Derek Broughton]

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