The patch I have attached lets me get the behavior I wish out of dnsmasq. I also include my version of dhclient-enter-hooks as required for the switchover from pre-dnsmasq and dhclient. On 8/16/05, Joseph Tate <dragonstrider@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to use dnsmasq on a laptop in order to facilitate openvpn > connections. As such, the only configuration option I'm concerned > about is a single server=3D/example.com/192.168.0.1 line. > > The way I currently have it set up is I modified dhclient to write its > resolv.conf data to /etc/resolv.conf.dhclient and configured > /etc/dnsmasq.conf to look there for its upstream dns servers. > /etc/resolv.conf is set to nameserver 127.0.0.1 > > All of this works great. When I start the openvpn service, it the > routes, and queries to the domain in the server=3D line work just fine. > > The only problem is that the hostname for my system doesn't get set > correctly. With the resolv.conf data written to something other than > /etc/resolv.conf, the ifup scripts don't have a valid dns server to do > the ipcalc call to set the laptop's hostname. If I start dnsmasq > before the network comes up, something gets fubar'd. I'm not sure how > to describe it exactly, but network services are slow to load, and > restarting networking and dnsmasq doesn't solve the problem. Perhaps > dnsmasq is answering the dhcp request when the network starts? > Certainly not desired behavior. > > Anyway, my question: is there a way to have the best of both worlds? > DHCP requests to another server, and DNS lookups that work at all > times? > > My current best idea on how to solve this problem is modifying the > dnsmasq initscript to tweak /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks to change where > dhclient writes resolv.conf data, and fixing up /etc/resolv.conf on > the fly to set 127.0.0.1 to the nameserver (and somehow keep the > search domains intact), but I'm hoping that I'm just missing some key > piece of the puzzle and that this problem has been solved before. Any > insights? > > -- > Joseph Tate > Personal e-mail: jtate AT dragonstrider DOT com > Web: http://www.dragonstrider.com >