Dnsmasq windows server 2008

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Improve this answer. Mathias R. Jessen Mathias R. Jessen Your DCs should therefore be able to access it locally, rather than having to make name requests of another server. Just to add to the above great advice, really you should have a second domain controller which you could use as your 2nd DNS server. HorusKol I meant to express that primary zone servers can't be cross-vendor. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.

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To get the last part to work you need to remove the no-hosts part and specify a separate hosts file for the static assignments.

The listen-address directive tells Dnsmasq which interface or interfaces to listen on. Always use listen-address because you don't want Dnsmasq exposed to the wrong networks, and especially not the Internet. Always include the loopback address. If you have more than one NIC the names could get changed, and then your name services will be messed up.

Few extra from your ISP were added by ddwrt as a security measure. ISPs nameservers are used only if your own dns is not available. They will be ignored until all your user defined dns servers are not responding. There were some problems in older DNSMasq versions with this option. It is recomended to enable this option in newer builds.

So, if you have entered 3 nameservers on index. Two more from your ISP were added for redudancy. If you want to avoid such behaviour you can use --no-resolv directive. You can specify an alternate one like so:.

Instead of having a default router set up on the router, you can push a static route to client computers. This will offload the router from having to redirect packets to the correct destination and will take one hop off the traffic path.

To accomplish this, we use DHCP option which replaced option 33 and allows you to use the netmask:. Where x.