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1.1     ! misho       1: The patch I have attached lets me get the behavior I wish out of
        !             2: dnsmasq.  I also include my version of dhclient-enter-hooks as
        !             3: required for the switchover from pre-dnsmasq and dhclient.
        !             4: 
        !             5: On 8/16/05, Joseph Tate <dragonstrider@gmail.com> wrote:
        !             6: > I'm trying to use dnsmasq on a laptop in order to facilitate openvpn
        !             7: > connections.  As such, the only configuration option I'm concerned
        !             8: > about is a single server=3D/example.com/192.168.0.1 line.
        !             9: >
        !            10: > The way I currently have it set up is I modified dhclient to write its
        !            11: > resolv.conf data to /etc/resolv.conf.dhclient and configured
        !            12: > /etc/dnsmasq.conf to look there for its upstream dns servers.
        !            13: > /etc/resolv.conf is set to nameserver 127.0.0.1
        !            14: >
        !            15: > All of this works great.  When I start the openvpn service, it the
        !            16: > routes, and queries to the domain in the server=3D line work just fine.
        !            17: >
        !            18: > The only problem is that the hostname for my system doesn't get set
        !            19: > correctly.  With the resolv.conf data written to something other than
        !            20: > /etc/resolv.conf, the ifup scripts don't have a valid dns server to do
        !            21: > the ipcalc call to set the laptop's hostname.  If I start dnsmasq
        !            22: > before the network comes up, something gets fubar'd.  I'm not sure how
        !            23: > to describe it exactly, but network services are slow to load, and
        !            24: > restarting networking and dnsmasq doesn't solve the problem.  Perhaps
        !            25: > dnsmasq is answering the dhcp request when the network starts?
        !            26: > Certainly not desired behavior.
        !            27: >
        !            28: > Anyway, my question: is there a way to have the best of both worlds?
        !            29: > DHCP requests to another server, and DNS lookups that work at all
        !            30: > times?
        !            31: >
        !            32: > My current best idea on how to solve this problem is modifying the
        !            33: > dnsmasq initscript to tweak /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks to change where
        !            34: > dhclient writes resolv.conf data, and fixing up /etc/resolv.conf on
        !            35: > the fly to set 127.0.0.1 to the nameserver (and somehow keep the
        !            36: > search domains intact), but I'm hoping that I'm just missing some key
        !            37: > piece of the puzzle and that this problem has been solved before.  Any
        !            38: > insights?
        !            39: >
        !            40: > --
        !            41: > Joseph Tate
        !            42: > Personal e-mail: jtate AT dragonstrider DOT com
        !            43: > Web: http://www.dragonstrider.com
        !            44: >