yeah, thats almost what i ended up doing. i also run dnsmasq, so I just added address=/blah.example.com/E.F.G.H to the config and restarted dnsmasq. > Can you not just put: > blah.example.com E.F.G.H > in /etc/hosts? > But I still wonder how to do this from the ip route realm of things, rather than a forced lookup from within dnsmasq.