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toralf
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 Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 1:55 pm Post subject: [solved]dnsmasq didn't query 127.0.0.1 as a third dns server |
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Hello,
I've some definitions in /etc/hosts which won't be used if my VPN software changed the /etc/resolv.conf into this : | Code: | tfoerste@n22 ~ $ cat /etc/resolv.conf
#@NETVPN_GENERATED@ -- this file is generated by NetVPN
# and will be overwritten by NetVPN
# as long as the above mark is intact
nameserver 9.64.163.21
nameserver 9.64.162.21
nameserver 127.0.0.1
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Because the VPN programs monitors resolv.conf I don't have any chance to move the 127.* entry on top of the three servers. Or how can I tell dnsmasq to query 127.* first ?
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boerKrelis
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| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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| toralf wrote: |
Or how can I tell dnsmasq to query 127.* first ?
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Just to clear this up. You don't necessarily get answers from /etc/hosts by querying 127.0.0.1. There may not even be a nameserver listening at 127.0.0.1.
/etc/hosts is used by NSS through glibc, I believe. Which means that, from the local machine, you can get answers from /etc/hosts without any query ever being sent to any name server at all. |
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depontius
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| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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The easiest way to handle this is to do some tweaking in the AGN dialer. Unfortunately I have the fix on a home machine, and can't give you the full details at the moment. But I can say that it involves editing "/opt/agns/bin/ConfigAGN.sh", of course after having saved a copy. Inside that file, I tweak the "write_resolvconf()" and "reset_resolvconf()" routines.
In essence, "/etc/resolv.conf" never gets overwritten - it always points to 127.0.0.1 and dnsmasq. Instead, I have the company nameservers in another file that I move in and out of "/etc/dnsmasq.d", and then kick dnsmasq to tell it to pick up or drop the added nameservers. I'm a bit sloppy in that I've simply hardcoded the company nameservers in a file, and don't pick them up on the fly when the AGN link comes up. But that hasn't been a big deal so far.
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toralf
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| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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The "host" command itself doesn't resolve hostnames if it is defined only in /etc/hosts and if I do not have a running dnsmasq and the 127.* nameserver defined (for dnsmasq of course).
But nevertheless I circumvent this issue, even if "host" doesn't work, a ssh connection works fine b/c ssh follows the conventions to resolve a hostname into an ip address. |
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boerKrelis
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| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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| toralf wrote: |
The "host" command itself doesn't resolve hostnames if it is defined only in /etc/hosts [...]
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Hey, you're right. The "ping" command, however, does. Just out of curiousity I straced ping and it (and its libs) do
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open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib/libresolv.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/etc/resolv.conf", O_RDONLY) = 4
open("/etc/resolv.conf", O_RDONLY) = 4
open("/etc/nsswitch.conf", O_RDONLY) = 4
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 4
open("/lib/libnss_files.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 4
open("/etc/host.conf", O_RDONLY) = 4
open("/etc/hosts", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
open("/etc/hosts", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
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whereas "host" and the libs it is compiled against do
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open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib/libnsl.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib/libz.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/etc/resolv.conf", O_RDONLY) = 4
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That explains. |
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toralf
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@depontius
thx - I'll try that.  |
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