Redirect all DNS-Requests with dnsmasq

Question

I have following scenario: I have set up an ad-hoc network with wicd on my server, and use dnsmasq as an dhcp- and dns-server. The network works very well, I can connect, get an ip address, and on all clients the nameserver is set to the IP of my server. But I want that all dns request of the clients are resolved to my local server which runs an apache webserver. Is this possible with dnsmasq?

Solution 1

Yes!

I use it this way:

/usr/local/sbin/dnsmasq -z -k -2 -i vlan9 -a 10.6.66.1 \
--address=/\#/10.6.66.1

10.6.66.1 is the IP address it returns.

UPDATE Yes, # is a wildcard. You can specify multiple with --address

Solution 2

The primary options to use in the conf file for this would be:

address=/#/10.6.66.1
interface=vlan9

Comments

[Akiva]

one question: the \# in the address part is the wildcard for all domainrequest, or?

[Akiva]

thanks got it to work, but it should only be # instead of \#

[user649102]

It depends on your shell. It is an escape mechanism as the shell would interpret it as a comment.

[Akiva]

ah ok you're right :D i use it in the dnsmasq.conf, therefore i haven't to escape it ;)