[GTALUG] Fwd: OpenWRT / DNSmasq question

[Giles Orr]

Fantastic, that worked!  Thanks!

On 13 November 2015 at 23:51, Alex Volkov <alex at flamy.ca> wrote:
> Hi Giles,
>
> This is exactly how it works, you add a record to /etc/hosts file, that
> could be any record. There's only one confusing step -- you need to restart
> dnsmasq every time you edit the file as dnsmasq doesn't detect changes
> automatically.
>
> Alex.
>
> On 13/11/15 07:55 PM, Giles Orr wrote:
>>
>> Is there a way (using just DNSmasq, not installing a full service DNS
>> server) to have an OpenWRT router answer DNS queries for a particular
>> name?  A name that's not a local DHCP lease.  I have a Digital Ocean
>> "droplet" that's just an IP, but I've given it a name and normally
>> stuff that name and the IP into the /etc/hosts file.  But if I put it
>> into the router, I wouldn't have to keep editing hosts files ...
>>
>
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