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1# Configuration file for dnsmasq.
2#
3# Format is one option per line, legal options are the same
4# as the long options legal on the command line. See
5# "/usr/sbin/dnsmasq --help" or "man 8 dnsmasq" for details.
6
c1bb8504 7# The following two options make you a better netizen, since they
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8# tell dnsmasq to filter out queries which the public DNS cannot
9# answer, and which load the servers (especially the root servers)
10# uneccessarily. If you have a dial-on-demand link they also stop
11# these requests from bringing up the link uneccessarily.
12
13# Never forward plain names (with a dot or domain part)
14domain-needed
c1bb8504 15# Never forward addresses in the non-routed address spaces.
9e4abcb5 16bogus-priv
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18
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19# Uncomment this to filter useless windows-originated DNS requests
20# which can trigger dial-on-demand links needlessly.
21# Note that (amongst other things) this blocks all SRV requests,
22# so don't use it if you use eg Kerberos.
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23# This option only affects forwarding, SRV records originating for
24# dnsmasq (via srv-host= lines) are not suppressed by it.
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25#filterwin2k
26
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27# Change this line if you want dns to get its upstream servers from
28# somewhere other that /etc/resolv.conf
29#resolv-file=
30
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31# By default, dnsmasq will send queries to any of the upstream
32# servers it knows about and tries to favour servers to are known
33# to be up. Uncommenting this forces dnsmasq to try each query
34# with each server strictly in the order they appear in
35# /etc/resolv.conf
36#strict-order
37
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38# If you don't want dnsmasq to read /etc/resolv.conf or any other
39# file, getting its servers for this file instead (see below), then
40# uncomment this
41#no-resolv
42
43# If you don't want dnsmasq to poll /etc/resolv.conf or other resolv
44# files for changes and re-read them then uncomment this.
45#no-poll
46
47# Add other name servers here, with domain specs if they are for
48# non-public domains.
49#server=/localnet/192.168.0.1
50
51# Add local-only domains here, queries in these domains are answered
52# from /etc/hosts or DHCP only.
53#local=/localnet/
54
55# Add domains which you want to force to an IP address here.
56# The example below send any host in doubleclick.net to a local
57# webserver.
58#address=/doubleclick.net/127.0.0.1
59
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60# If you want dnsmasq to change uid and gid to something other
61# than the default, edit the following lines.
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62#user=
63#group=
64
65# If you want dnsmasq to listen for requests only on specified interfaces
66# (and the loopback) give the name of the interface (eg eth0) here.
67# Repeat the line for more than one interface.
68#interface=
69# Or you can specify which interface _not_ to listen on
70#except-interface=
71# Or which to listen on by address (remember to include 127.0.0.1 if
72# you use this.)
73#listen-address=
74
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75# On systems which support it, dnsmasq binds the wildcard address,
76# even when it is listening on only some interfaces. It then discards
77# requests that it shouldn't reply to. This has the advantage of
78# working even when interfaces come and go and change address. If you
79# want dnsmasq to really bind only the interfaces it is listening on,
80# uncomment this option. About the only time you may need this is when
81# running another nameserver on the same machine.
82#bind-interfaces
83
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84# If you don't want dnsmasq to read /etc/hosts, uncomment the
85# following line.
86#no-hosts
87# or if you want it to read another file, as well as /etc/hosts, use
88# this.
89#addn-hosts=/etc/banner_add_hosts
90
91# Set this (and domain: see below) if you want to have a domain
92# automatically added to simple names in a hosts-file.
93#expand-hosts
94
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95# Set the domain for dnsmasq. this is optional, but if it is set, it
96# does the following things.
97# 1) Allows DHCP hosts to have fully qualified domain names, as long
98# as the domain part matches this setting.
99# 2) Sets the "domain" DHCP option thereby potentially setting the
100# domain of all systems configured by DHCP
101# 3) Provides the domain part for "expand-hosts"
102#domain=thekelleys.org.uk
103
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104# Uncomment this to enable the integrated DHCP server, you need
105# to supply the range of addresses available for lease and optionally
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106# a lease time. If you have more than one network, you will need to
107# repeat this for each network on which you want to supply DHCP
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108# service.
109#dhcp-range=192.168.0.50,192.168.0.150,12h
110
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111# This is an example of a DHCP range where the netmask is given. This
112# is needed for networks we reach the dnsmasq DHCP server via a relay
113# agent. If you don't know what a DHCP relay agent is, you probably
114# don't need to worry about this.
115#dhcp-range=192.168.0.50,192.168.0.150,255.255.255.0,12h
116
117# This is an example of a DHCP range with a network-id, so that
118# some DHCP options may be set only for this network.
119#dhcp-range=red,192.168.0.50,192.168.0.150
120
9e4abcb5 121# Supply parameters for specified hosts using DHCP. There are lots
1ab84e2f 122# of valid alternatives, so we will give examples of each. Note that
9e4abcb5 123# IP addresses DO NOT have to be in the range given above, they just
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124# need to be on the same network. The order of the parameters in these
125# do not matter, it's permissble to give name,adddress and MAC in any order
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127# Always allocate the host with ethernet address 11:22:33:44:55:66
128# The IP address 192.168.0.60
129#dhcp-host=11:22:33:44:55:66,192.168.0.60
130
131# Always set the name of the host with hardware address
132# 11:22:33:44:55:66 to be "fred"
133#dhcp-host=11:22:33:44:55:66,fred
134
135# Always give the host with ethernet address 11:22:33:44:55:66
136# the name fred and IP address 192.168.0.60 and lease time 45 minutes
137#dhcp-host=11:22:33:44:55:66,fred,192.168.0.60,45m
138
139# Give the machine which says it's name is "bert" IP address
140# 192.168.0.70 and an infinite lease
141#dhcp-host=bert,192.168.0.70,infinite
142
143# Always give the host with client identifier 01:02:02:04
144# the IP address 192.168.0.60
145#dhcp-host=id:01:02:02:04,192.168.0.60
146
147# Always give the host with client identifier "marjorie"
148# the IP address 192.168.0.60
149#dhcp-host=id:marjorie,192.168.0.60
150
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151# Enable the address given for "judge" in /etc/hosts
152# to be given to a machine presenting the name "judge" when
153# it asks for a DHCP lease.
154#dhcp-host=judge
155
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156# Never offer DHCP service to a machine whose ethernet
157# address is 11:22:33:44:55:66
158#dhcp-host=11:22:33:44:55:66,ignore
159
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160# Ignore any client-id presented by the machine with ethernet
161# address 11:22:33:44:55:66. This is useful to prevent a machine
162# being treated differently when running under different OS's or
163# between PXE boot and OS boot.
164#dhcp-host=11:22:33:44:55:66,id:*
165
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166# Send extra options which are tagged as "red" to
167# the machine with ethernet address 11:22:33:44:55:66
168#dhcp-host=11:22:33:44:55:66,net:red
169
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170# Send extra options which are tagged as "red" to
171# any machine with ethernet address starting 11:22:33:
172#dhcp-host=11:22:33:*:*:*,net:red
173
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174# Send extra options which are tagged as "red" to any machine whose
175# DHCP vendorclass string includes the substring "Linux"
176#dhcp-vendorclass=red,Linux
177
178# Send extra options which are tagged as "red" to any machine one
179# of whose DHCP userclass strings includes the substring "accounts"
180#dhcp-userclass=red,accounts
181
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182# If this line is uncommented, dnsmasq will read /etc/ethers and act
183# on the ethernet-address/IP pairs found there just as if they had
184# been given as --dhcp-host options. Useful if you keep
185# MAC-address/host mappings there for other purposes.
186#read-ethers
187
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188# Send options to hosts which ask for a DHCP lease.
189# See RFC 2132 for details of available options.
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190# Note that all the common settings, such as netmask and
191# broadcast address, DNS server and default route, are given
192# sane defaults by dnsmasq. You very likely will not need any
193# any dhcp-options. If you use Windows clients and Samba, there
194# are some options which are recommended, they are detailed at the
195# end of this section.
196# For reference, the common options are:
197# subnet mask - 1
198# default router - 3
199# DNS server - 6
200# broadcast address - 28
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202# Set the NTP time server addresses to 192.168.0.4 and 10.10.0.5
203#dhcp-option=42,192.168.0.4,10.10.0.5
204
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205# Set the NTP time server address to be the same machine as
206# is running dnsmasq
207#dhcp-option=42,0.0.0.0
208
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209# Set the NIS domain name to "welly"
210#dhcp-option=40,welly
211
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212# Set the default time-to-live to 50
213#dhcp-option=23,50
214
215# Set the "all subnets are local" flag
216#dhcp-option=27,1
217
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218# Send the etherboot magic flag and then etherboot options (a string).
219#dhcp-option=128,e4:45:74:68:00:00
220#dhcp-option=129,NIC=eepro100
221
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222# Specify an option which will only be sent to the "red" network
223# (see dhcp-range for the declaration of the "red" network)
224#dhcp-option=red,42,192.168.1.1
225
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226# The following DHCP options set up dnsmasq in the same way as is specified
227# for the ISC dhcpcd in
228# http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/textdocs/DHCP-Server-Configuration.txt
229# adapted for a typical dnsmasq installation where the host running
230# dnsmasq is also the host running samba.
231# you may want to uncomment them if you use Windows clients and Samba.
232#dhcp-option=19,0 # option ip-forwarding off
233#dhcp-option=44,0.0.0.0 # set netbios-over-TCP/IP nameserver(s) aka WINS server(s)
234#dhcp-option=45,0.0.0.0 # netbios datagram distribution server
235#dhcp-option=46,8 # netbios node type
236#dhcp-option=47 # empty netbios scope.
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238# Send RFC-3397 DNS domain search DHCP option. WARNING: Your DHCP client
239# probably doesn't support this......
240#dhcp-option=119,eng.apple.com,marketing.apple.com
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242# Send encapsulated vendor-class specific options. The vendor-class
243# is sent as DHCP option 60, and all the options marked with the
244# vendor class are send encapsulated in DHCP option 43. The meaning of
245# the options is defined by the vendor-class. This example sets the
246# mtftp address to 0.0.0.0 for PXEClients
247#dhcp-option=vendor:PXEClient,1,0.0.0.0
248
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249# Set the boot filename and tftpd server name and address
250# for BOOTP. You will only need this is you want to
251# boot machines over the network.
252#dhcp-boot=/var/ftpd/pxelinux.0,boothost,192.168.0.3
253
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254# Set the limit on DHCP leases, the default is 150
255#dhcp-lease-max=150
256
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257# The DHCP server needs somewhere on disk to keep its lease database.
258# This defaults to a sane location, but if you want to change it, use
259# the line below.
1ab84e2f 260#dhcp-leasefile=/var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases
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262# Set the DHCP server to authoritative mode. In this mode it will barge in
263# and take over the lease for any client which broadcasts on the network,
264# whether it has a record of the lease or not. This avoids long timeouts
265# when a machine wakes up on a new network. DO NOT enable this if there's
266# the slighest chance that you might end up accidentally configuring a DHCP
267# server for your campus/company accidentally. The ISC server uses the same
268# the same option, and this URL provides more information:
269# http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/dhcp/authoritative.php
270#dhcp-authoritative
271
9e4abcb5 272# Set the cachesize here.
1ab84e2f 273#cache-size=150
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275# If you want to disable negative caching, uncomment this.
276#no-negcache
277
278# Normally responses which come form /etc/hosts and the DHCP lease
279# file have Time-To-Live set as zero, which conventionally means
280# do not cache further. If you are happy to trade lower load on the
281# server for potentially stale date, you can set a time-to-live (in
282# seconds) here.
283#local-ttl=
284
285# If you want dnsmasq to detect attempts by Verisign to send queries
286# to unregistered .com and .net hosts to its sitefinder service and
287# have dnsmasq instead return the correct NXDOMAIN response, uncomment
288# this line. You can add similar lines to do the same for other
289# registries which have implemented wildcard A records.
290#bogus-nxdomain=64.94.110.11
291
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292# If you want to fix up DNS results from upstream servers, use the
293# alias option. This only works for IPv4.
294# This alias makes a result of 1.2.3.4 appear as 5.6.7.8
295#alias=1.2.3.4,5.6.7.8
296# and this maps 1.2.3.x to 5.6.7.x
297#alias=1.2.3.0,5.6.7.0,255.255.255.0
298
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300# Change these lines if you want dnsmasq to serve MX records.
301
302# Return an MX record named "maildomain.com" with target
303# servermachine.com and preference 50
304#mx-host=maildomain.com,servermachine.com,50
305
306# Set the default target for MX records created using the localmx option.
307#mx-target=servermachine.com
308
309# Return an MX record pointing to the mx-target for all local
310# machines.
311#localmx
312
313# Return an MX record pointing to itself for all local machines.
314#selfmx
315
316# Change the following lines if you want dnsmasq to serve SRV
317# records. These are useful if you want to serve ldap requests for
318# Active Directory and other windows-originated DNS requests.
319# See RFC 2782.
320# You may add multiple srv-host lines.
321# The fields are <name>,<target>,<port>,<priority>,<weight>
322# If the domain part if missing from the name (so that is just has the
323# service and protocol sections) then the domain given by the domain=
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324# config option is used. (Note that expand-hosts does not need to be
325# set for this to work.)
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327# A SRV record sending LDAP for the example.com domain to
328# ldapserver.example.com port 289
329#srv-host=_ldap._tcp.example.com,ldapserver.example.com,389
330
331# A SRV record sending LDAP for the example.com domain to
332# ldapserver.example.com port 289 (using domain=)
333#domain=example.com
334#srv-host=_ldap._tcp,ldapserver.example.com,389
335
336# Two SRV records for LDAP, each with different priorities
337#srv-host=_ldap._tcp.example.com,ldapserver.example.com,389,1
338#srv-host=_ldap._tcp.example.com,ldapserver.example.com,389,2
339
340# A SRV record indicating that there is no LDAP server for the domain
341# example.com
342#srv-host=_ldap._tcp.example.com
343
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345# Change the following lines to enable dnsmasq to serve TXT records.
346# These are used for things like SPF and zeroconf. (Note that the
347# domain-name expansion done for SRV records _does_not
348# occur for TXT records.)
349
350#Example SPF.
351#txt-record=example.com,v=spf1 a -all
352
353#Example zeroconf
354#txt-record=_http._tcp.example.com,name=value,paper=A4
355
356
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357# For debugging purposes, log each DNS query as it passes through
358# dnsmasq.
359#log-queries
360
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361# Include a another lot of configuration options.
362#conf-file=/etc/dnsmasq.more.conf
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