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@ -14,13 +14,13 @@ Lightweight DHCP and DNS server.
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dnsmasq solves the problem of accessing self hosted stuff when you are inside
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your network. As asking google's DNS for `example.com` will return your
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very own public IP and most routers/firewalls wont allow this loopback,
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where your requests should go out and then right back.</br>
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where your requests should go out and then right back.<br>
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Usual quick way to solve this issue is
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[editing the `hosts` file](
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https://github.com/DoTheEvo/selfhosted-apps-docker/tree/master/caddy_v2#--editing-hosts-file)
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on your machine, adding `192.168.1.222 example.com` IP-hostname pair.
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This tells your machine to fuck asking google's DNS, the rule is right there,
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`example.com` goes directly to the local server ip `192.168.1.222`.</br>
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`example.com` goes directly to the local server ip `192.168.1.222`.<br>
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But if more devices should "just work" it is a no-go, since this just works
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one the machine which `hosts` file was edited.
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@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ So the answer is running a DNS server that does this
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paring of IPs with hostnames, and a DHCP server that tells the devices
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on the network to use this DNS.
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*extra info*</br>
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*extra info*<br>
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DNS servers run on port 53.
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# Prerequisites
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@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ DNS servers run on port 53.
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* `hosts` - a file that can provide additional hostname-ip mapping
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`hosts` and `resolve.conf` are just normal system files always in use on any linux
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system.</br>
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system.<br>
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`dnsmasq.conf` comes with the dnsmasq installation.
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# Installation
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* `dnsmasq --help dhcp` - lists all the DHCP options
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You can also run **just DNS server**, by deleting the DHCP section
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in the `dnsmasq.conf` to the end.</br>
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in the `dnsmasq.conf` to the end.<br>
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Then on your router, in the DHCP>DNS settings, you just put in the ip address
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of the dnsmasq host as the DNS server.
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# resolv.conf
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A file that contains DNS nameservers to be used by the linux machine it sits on.</br>
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A file that contains DNS nameservers to be used by the linux machine it sits on.<br>
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Since dnsmasq, a DNS server, is running right on this machine,
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the entries just point to localhost.</br>
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the entries just point to localhost.<br>
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`resolv.conf`
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```
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Bit of an issue is that `resolv.conf` belongs to glibc, a core linux library.
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But there are other network related services that like to fuck with it.
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Like dhcpcd, networkmanager, systemd-resolved,...</br>
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Like dhcpcd, networkmanager, systemd-resolved,...<br>
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Ideally you know what is running on your host linux system, but just in case
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`resolv.conf` will be flagged as immutable.
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This prevents all possible changes to it unless the attribute is removed.
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Edit `/etc/resolv.conf` and set localhost as the DNS nameserver, as shown above.
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* Make it immutable to prevent any changes to it.</br>
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* Make it immutable to prevent any changes to it.<br>
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`sudo chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf`
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* Check if the content is what was set.</br>
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* Check if the content is what was set.<br>
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`cat /etc/resolv.conf`
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# /etc/hosts
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```
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This is a file present on every system, linux, windows, mac, android,...
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where you can assign a hostname to an IP.</br>
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where you can assign a hostname to an IP.<br>
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dnsmasq reads `/etc/hosts` for IP hostname pairs and adds them to its own
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resolve records.
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Unfortunately no wildcard support.</br>
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Unfortunately no wildcard support.<br>
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But as seen in the `dnsmasq.conf`, when domain is set it acts as a wildcard
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rule. So `example.com` stuff here is just for show.
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`sudo systemctl enable --now dnsmasq`
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* Check if it started without errors</br>
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* Check if it started without errors<br>
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`journalctl -u dnsmasq.service`
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* If you get "port already in use" error, check which service is using port 53</br>
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`sudo ss -tulwnp`</br>
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stop and disable that service, for example if it is `systemd-resolved`</br>
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* If you get "port already in use" error, check which service is using port 53<br>
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`sudo ss -tulwnp`<br>
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stop and disable that service, for example if it is `systemd-resolved`<br>
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`sudo systemctl disable --now systemd-resolved`
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* Make sure you **disable other DHCP servers** on the network,
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usually a router is running one.
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#### DHCP
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Set some machine on the network to use DHCP for its network setting.</br>
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Set some machine on the network to use DHCP for its network setting.<br>
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Network connection should just work with full connectivity.
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You can check on the dnsmasq host, file `/var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases`
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### Troubleshooting
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* **ping fails from windows when using hostname**</br>
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windows ping does not do dns lookup when just plain hostname is used</br>
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`ping meh-pc`</br>
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* **ping fails from windows when using hostname**<br>
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windows ping does not do dns lookup when just plain hostname is used<br>
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`ping meh-pc`<br>
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it's a [quirk](https://superuser.com/questions/495759/why-is-ping-unable-to-resolve-a-name-when-nslookup-works-fine/1257512#1257512)
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of windows ping utility.
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Can be solved by adding dot, which makes it look like domain name and this
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forces the dns lookup before pinging</br>
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`ping meh-pc.`</br>
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forces the dns lookup before pinging<br>
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`ping meh-pc.`<br>
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* **slow ping of a hostname, but fast nslookup on a linux machine**</br>
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for me it was `systemd-resolved` running on the machine I was doing ping from.</br>
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It can be stopped and disabled.</br>
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* **slow ping of a hostname, but fast nslookup on a linux machine**<br>
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for me it was `systemd-resolved` running on the machine I was doing ping from.<br>
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It can be stopped and disabled.<br>
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`sudo systemctl disable --now systemd-resolved`
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# Update
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DoTheEvolution
4 years ago