dnsmasq.conf sample
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Overview
This is a sample of dnsmasq.conf, mainly included because of all the comments. I'm stripping all the comments out of my actual file so I can see which lines are actually in use. This is a fairly basic configuration which uses /etc/hosts as well as having additional local-machinename definitions in a file called /etc/dnsmasqhosts.
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# Configuration file for dnsmasq. # # Format is one option per line, legal options are the same # as the long options legal on the command line. See # "/usr/sbin/dnsmasq --help" or "man 8 dnsmasq" for details. # The following two options make you a better netizen, since they # tell dnsmasq to filter out queries which the public DNS cannot # answer, and which load the servers (especially the root servers) # uneccessarily. If you have a dial-on-demand link they also stop # these requests from bringing up the link uneccessarily. # Never forward plain names (without a dot or domain part) domain-needed # Never forward addresses in the non-routed address spaces. bogus-priv # Uncomment this to filter useless windows-originated DNS requests # which can trigger dial-on-demand links needlessly. # Note that (amongst other things) this blocks all SRV requests, # so don't use it if you use eg Kerberos. # This option only affects forwarding, SRV records originating for # dnsmasq (via srv-host= lines) are not suppressed by it. #filterwin2k # Change this line if you want dns to get its upstream servers from # somewhere other that /etc/resolv.conf #resolv-file= resolv-file=/etc/dnsmasqupstreamservers # By default, dnsmasq will send queries to any of the upstream # servers it knows about and tries to favour servers to are known # to be up. Uncommenting this forces dnsmasq to try each query # with each server strictly in the order they appear in # /etc/resolv.conf #strict-order # If you don't want dnsmasq to read /etc/resolv.conf or any other # file, getting its servers from this file instead (see below), then # uncomment this #no-resolv # If you don't want dnsmasq to poll /etc/resolv.conf or other resolv # files for changes and re-read them then uncomment this. #no-poll # Add other name servers here, with domain specs if they are for # non-public domains. #server=/localnet/192.168.0.1 #server=166.70.63.3 # Add local-only domains here, queries in these domains are answered # from /etc/hosts or DHCP only. #local=/localnet/ # Add domains which you want to force to an IP address here. # The example below send any host in doubleclick.net to a local # webserver. #address=/doubleclick.net/127.0.0.1 # If you want dnsmasq to change uid and gid to something other # than the default, edit the following lines. #user= #group= # If you want dnsmasq to listen for DHCP and DNS requests only on # specified interfaces (and the loopback) give the name of the # interface (eg eth0) here. # Repeat the line for more than one interface. #interface= # Or you can specify which interface _not_ to listen on #except-interface= # Or which to listen on by address (remember to include 127.0.0.1 if # you use this.) #listen-address= # If you want dnsmasq to provide only DNS service on an interface, # configure it as shown above, and then use the following line to # disable DHCP on it. #no-dhcp-interface= # On systems which support it, dnsmasq binds the wildcard address, # even when it is listening on only some interfaces. It then discards # requests that it shouldn't reply to. This has the advantage of # working even when interfaces come and go and change address. If you # want dnsmasq to really bind only the interfaces it is listening on, # uncomment this option. About the only time you may need this is when # running another nameserver on the same machine. #bind-interfaces # If you don't want dnsmasq to read /etc/hosts, uncomment the # following line. #no-hosts # or if you want it to read another file, as well as /etc/hosts, use # this. #addn-hosts=/etc/banner_add_hosts addn-hosts=/etc/dnsmasqhosts # Set this (and domain: see below) if you want to have a domain # automatically added to simple names in a hosts-file. #expand-hosts # Set the domain for dnsmasq. this is optional, but if it is set, it # does the following things. # 1) Allows DHCP hosts to have fully qualified domain names, as long # as the domain part matches this setting. # 2) Sets the "domain" DHCP option thereby potentially setting the # domain of all systems configured by DHCP # 3) Provides the domain part for "expand-hosts" #domain=thekelleys.org.uk # Uncomment this to enable the integrated DHCP server, you need # to supply the range of addresses available for lease and optionally # a lease time. If you have more than one network, you will need to # repeat this for each network on which you want to supply DHCP # service. dhcp-range=192.168.0.50,192.168.0.150,12h # This is an example of a DHCP range where the netmask is given. This # is needed for networks we reach the dnsmasq DHCP server via a relay # agent. If you don't know what a DHCP relay agent is, you probably # don't need to worry about this. #dhcp-range=192.168.0.50,192.168.0.150,255.255.255.0,12h # This is an example of a DHCP range with a network-id, so that # some DHCP options may be set only for this network. #dhcp-range=red,192.168.0.50,192.168.0.150 # Supply parameters for specified hosts using DHCP. There are lots # of valid alternatives, so we will give examples of each. Note that # IP addresses DO NOT have to be in the range given above, they just # need to be on the same network. The order of the parameters in these # do not matter, it's permissble to give name,adddress and MAC in any order # Always allocate the host with ethernet address 11:22:33:44:55:66 # The IP address 192.168.0.60 #dhcp-host=11:22:33:44:55:66,192.168.0.60 # Always set the name of the host with hardware address # 11:22:33:44:55:66 to be "fred" #dhcp-host=11:22:33:44:55:66,fred # Always give the host with ethernet address 11:22:33:44:55:66 # the name fred and IP address 192.168.0.60 and lease time 45 minutes #dhcp-host=11:22:33:44:55:66,fred,192.168.0.60,45m dhcp-host=00:0e:2e:0d:44:be,Bunsen,192.168.0.106 # Give the machine which says it's name is "bert" IP address # 192.168.0.70 and an infinite lease #dhcp-host=bert,192.168.0.70,infinite # Always give the host with client identifier 01:02:02:04 # the IP address 192.168.0.60 #dhcp-host=id:01:02:02:04,192.168.0.60 # Always give the host with client identifier "marjorie" # the IP address 192.168.0.60 #dhcp-host=id:marjorie,192.168.0.60 # Enable the address given for "judge" in /etc/hosts # to be given to a machine presenting the name "judge" when # it asks for a DHCP lease. #dhcp-host=judge # Never offer DHCP service to a machine whose ethernet # address is 11:22:33:44:55:66 #dhcp-host=11:22:33:44:55:66,ignore # Ignore any client-id presented by the machine with ethernet # address 11:22:33:44:55:66. This is useful to prevent a machine # being treated differently when running under different OS's or # between PXE boot and OS boot. #dhcp-host=11:22:33:44:55:66,id:* # Send extra options which are tagged as "red" to # the machine with ethernet address 11:22:33:44:55:66 #dhcp-host=11:22:33:44:55:66,net:red # Send extra options which are tagged as "red" to # any machine with ethernet address starting 11:22:33: #dhcp-host=11:22:33:*:*:*,net:red # Send extra options which are tagged as "red" to any machine whose # DHCP vendorclass string includes the substring "Linux" #dhcp-vendorclass=red,Linux # Send extra options which are tagged as "red" to any machine one # of whose DHCP userclass strings includes the substring "accounts" #dhcp-userclass=red,accounts # If this line is uncommented, dnsmasq will read /etc/ethers and act # on the ethernet-address/IP pairs found there just as if they had # been given as --dhcp-host options. Useful if you keep # MAC-address/host mappings there for other purposes. #read-ethers # Send options to hosts which ask for a DHCP lease. # See RFC 2132 for details of available options. # Note that all the common settings, such as netmask and # broadcast address, DNS server and default route, are given # sane defaults by dnsmasq. You very likely will not need any # any dhcp-options. If you use Windows clients and Samba, there # are some options which are recommended, they are detailed at the # end of this section. # For reference, the common options are: # subnet mask - 1 # default router - 3 # DNS server - 6 # broadcast address - 28 # Set the NTP time server addresses to 192.168.0.4 and 10.10.0.5 #dhcp-option=42,192.168.0.4,10.10.0.5 dhcp-option=3,192.168.0.1 # Set the NTP time server address to be the same machine as # is running dnsmasq #dhcp-option=42,0.0.0.0 # Set the NIS domain name to "welly" #dhcp-option=40,welly # Set the default time-to-live to 50 #dhcp-option=23,50 # Set the "all subnets are local" flag #dhcp-option=27,1 # Send the etherboot magic flag and then etherboot options (a string). #dhcp-option=128,e4:45:74:68:00:00 #dhcp-option=129,NIC=eepro100 # Specify an option which will only be sent to the "red" network # (see dhcp-range for the declaration of the "red" network) #dhcp-option=red,42,192.168.1.1 # The following DHCP options set up dnsmasq in the same way as is specified # for the ISC dhcpcd in # http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/textdocs/DHCP-Server-Configuration.txt # adapted for a typical dnsmasq installation where the host running # dnsmasq is also the host running samba. # you may want to uncomment them if you use Windows clients and Samba. #dhcp-option=19,0 # option ip-forwarding off #dhcp-option=44,0.0.0.0 # set netbios-over-TCP/IP nameserver(s) aka WINS server(s) #dhcp-option=45,0.0.0.0 # netbios datagram distribution server #dhcp-option=46,8 # netbios node type #dhcp-option=47 # empty netbios scope. # Send RFC-3397 DNS domain search DHCP option. WARNING: Your DHCP client # probably doesn't support this...... #dhcp-option=119,eng.apple.com,marketing.apple.com # Send encapsulated vendor-class specific options. The vendor-class # is sent as DHCP option 60, and all the options marked with the # vendor class are send encapsulated in DHCP option 43. The meaning of # the options is defined by the vendor-class. This example sets the # mtftp address to 0.0.0.0 for PXEClients #dhcp-option=vendor:PXEClient,1,0.0.0.0 # Set the boot filename and tftpd server name and address # for BOOTP. You will only need this is you want to # boot machines over the network. #dhcp-boot=/var/ftpd/pxelinux.0,boothost,192.168.0.3 # Set the limit on DHCP leases, the default is 150 #dhcp-lease-max=150 # The DHCP server needs somewhere on disk to keep its lease database. # This defaults to a sane location, but if you want to change it, use # the line below. #dhcp-leasefile=/var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases # Set the DHCP server to authoritative mode. In this mode it will barge in # and take over the lease for any client which broadcasts on the network, # whether it has a record of the lease or not. This avoids long timeouts # when a machine wakes up on a new network. DO NOT enable this if there's # the slighest chance that you might end up accidentally configuring a DHCP # server for your campus/company accidentally. The ISC server uses the same # the same option, and this URL provides more information: # http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/dhcp/authoritative.php #dhcp-authoritative # Set the cachesize here. #cache-size=150 # If you want to disable negative caching, uncomment this. #no-negcache # Normally responses which come form /etc/hosts and the DHCP lease # file have Time-To-Live set as zero, which conventionally means # do not cache further. If you are happy to trade lower load on the # server for potentially stale date, you can set a time-to-live (in # seconds) here. #local-ttl= # If you want dnsmasq to detect attempts by Verisign to send queries # to unregistered .com and .net hosts to its sitefinder service and # have dnsmasq instead return the correct NXDOMAIN response, uncomment # this line. You can add similar lines to do the same for other # registries which have implemented wildcard A records. #bogus-nxdomain=64.94.110.11 # If you want to fix up DNS results from upstream servers, use the # alias option. This only works for IPv4. # This alias makes a result of 1.2.3.4 appear as 5.6.7.8 #alias=1.2.3.4,5.6.7.8 # and this maps 1.2.3.x to 5.6.7.x #alias=1.2.3.0,5.6.7.0,255.255.255.0 # Change these lines if you want dnsmasq to serve MX records. # Return an MX record named "maildomain.com" with target # servermachine.com and preference 50 #mx-host=maildomain.com,servermachine.com,50 # Set the default target for MX records created using the localmx option. #mx-target=servermachine.com # Return an MX record pointing to the mx-target for all local # machines. #localmx # Return an MX record pointing to itself for all local machines. #selfmx # Change the following lines if you want dnsmasq to serve SRV # records. These are useful if you want to serve ldap requests for # Active Directory and other windows-originated DNS requests. # See RFC 2782. # You may add multiple srv-host lines. # The fields are <name>,<target>,<port>,<priority>,<weight> # If the domain part if missing from the name (so that is just has the # service and protocol sections) then the domain given by the domain= # config option is used. (Note that expand-hosts does not need to be # set for this to work.) # A SRV record sending LDAP for the example.com domain to # ldapserver.example.com port 289 #srv-host=_ldap._tcp.example.com,ldapserver.example.com,389 # A SRV record sending LDAP for the example.com domain to # ldapserver.example.com port 289 (using domain=) #domain=example.com #srv-host=_ldap._tcp,ldapserver.example.com,389 # Two SRV records for LDAP, each with different priorities #srv-host=_ldap._tcp.example.com,ldapserver.example.com,389,1 #srv-host=_ldap._tcp.example.com,ldapserver.example.com,389,2 # A SRV record indicating that there is no LDAP server for the domain # example.com #srv-host=_ldap._tcp.example.com # Change the following lines to enable dnsmasq to serve TXT records. # These are used for things like SPF and zeroconf. (Note that the # domain-name expansion done for SRV records _does_not # occur for TXT records.) #Example SPF. #txt-record=example.com,v=spf1 a -all #Example zeroconf #txt-record=_http._tcp.example.com,name=value,paper=A4 # For debugging purposes, log each DNS query as it passes through # dnsmasq. #log-queries # Include a another lot of configuration options. #conf-file=/etc/dnsmasq.more.conf