DNSmasq – quick and dirty DNS for LAN

June 27, 2007
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The Situation
Simple network within the company :

Fortinet NAT/router
Windows XP clients around room
Linux server (serving via Samba, potentially NFS)

I just want to name a few machines, to avoid typing in IPs all the time.
On the Server machine
# yum remove caching-nameserver# yum install dnsmasqEdit /etc/dnsmasq.conf, enable :domain-neededbogus-privlocal=/fscapital/ # For LAN addresses like server.fscapitalcache-size=1500resolv-file=/etc/resolv-tw.conf # [...]

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