How to redirect request for any host to my hostname within a local network
Solution 1
Okay, I solved the problem. Posting the solution here back with hope that it helps somebody in the future...
I solved this by modifying the lighttpd.conf file. I added the following inside my lighttpd.conf file:
$HTTP["host"] !~ "mydesiredhostname\.com" {
url.redirect = (
"" => "http://192.168.0.1/"
)
}
I even had to add the following to my dnsmasq.conf file: (thanks to the answer below)
address=/#/192.168.0.1
Thank you everybody for your time. Cheers!
Solution 2
You can try to add this row into you dnsmasq.conf:
address=/#/192.168.0.1
From man page: ... with the additional facility that /#/ matches any domain. Thus --address=/#/1.2.3.4 will always return 1.2.3.4 for any query not answered from /etc/hosts or DHCP...
Solution 3
You can use iptables to redirect 80 port to yours ip
iptables -t nat -D PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.1
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Updated on September 17, 2022Comments
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Mahendra Liya almost 2 years
I have a local wireless network running. It is not connected to the internet and it has a webserver (lighttpd) running on 192.168.0.1
This webserver has a website running on it.
I want to know how can I redirect the user to "192.168.0.1" whenever he / she tries to access any other IP on this wireless network.
I have "dnsmasq" as my DNS Server.
To summarise:
"http://192.168.0.1" ==> Allowed to access
"http://193.168.0.1" ==> Makes no sense in this local wireless network, so want to redirect the user by default to "http://192.168.0.1"
Thanks, Mahendra.
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Mahendra Liya over 13 yearsHello @lg, I tried adding this to dnsmasq.conf.. However when I tried to browse "mydummyhostname.com" it gave " Server not found " Do you have any idea?
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lg. over 13 yearsI suppose you restarted dnsmasq server. Are you sure your client is using dnsmasq as dns server? Try to add address=/mydummyhostname.com/192.168.0.1 in dnsmasq.conf. I edited my response.
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Mahendra Liya over 13 yearsI tried adding "address=/mydummyhostname.com/192.168.0.1" to dnsmasq.conf and it still shows "Server not found" do you have any idea what could be wrong? Am i missing something?
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Mahendra Liya over 13 yearsthis command does not work on my linux machine... I am using linux 2.6.32 and its on embedded device.
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lg. over 13 yearsCheck you client DNS configuration. Which S.O. are you using as client?