How is http://b3 resolved

[drdr6]

Having trouble resolving http://b3 (per manual, and nice feature)
Recently switched to opendns, so have touched dnsmasq.conf & resolv.conf.
Didn't see b3 mentioned there anywhere so wondering where "b3" as a domain gets resolved to localhost in the default setup on a b3.

Thx
Derek

[RandomUsername]

It should be in /etc/hosts and the default config for dnsmasq is to serve addresses for domains listed there before it forwards requests to external DNS servers.

[drdr6]

Odd, since this is what I saw after installation and basic config in my hosts file

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

i.e. no mention of "b3". I've forced it to resolve by adding the line

address=/b3/127.0.0.1/

to my dnsmasq.conf, but I wanted to know where it was supposed to have been set

The reason I got into this was switching to opendns, I started looking at logs and am seeing *.localhost listed there as resolving at more than 10x the rate of all the other domain lookups my box is doing. opendns won't disclose what '*' is in this context, but turning on dnsmasq logging, one key culprit was isatap.localdomain - which is an MSFT Vista/7/8 IPv6 tunneling thing I don't pretend to understand. After waiting around some time I also saw references to a lot of my local machines such as "storage" showing up as having gone out for resolution as "storage.localhost" and been resolved by opendns to a non-existent domain (but having taken time to do so obviously)

[RandomUsername]

Something borked then. This is mine (after changing hostname in the web interface):

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127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
::1     ip6-localhost   ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
192.168.10.1    serverb3.localdomain    serverb3

Also, are you on a dynamic public IP address? If so, you will have a problem of your DNS servers switching back to your ISP's every time your IP address renews. You need to make the following changes to /etc/bubba/dhclient.conf:

Remove "domain-name-servers" from this line:

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request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
                domain-name, host-name,
                netbios-name-servers, netbios-scope;

And add the following line underneath:

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supersede domain-name-servers 208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220;

[Gordon]

Another trick you could use is to add the following line to dnsmasq.conf (or dnsmasq.d/something.conf)

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resolv-file=/var/lib/dnsmasq/resolv.conf

In that case receiving new DNS servers from DHCP will not change which servers DNSmasq uses for reference.

the location /var/lib/dnsmasq/resolv.conf is just an example

[drdr6]

Thanks for all the suggestions.
So in hosts file, you'd recommend (for a vanilla conf example)

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192.168.x.x    b3.localdomain    b3

(where x.x is obviously what one picks for the local network) ?

For the DCHP piece, I don't quite get DCHP'd since I'm using a Drayek 120 in bridged mode to connect PPPoA as PPP and so I have (in dnsmasq.conf)

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no-resolv 

uncommented and

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server=208.67.222.222
server=208.67.220.220

as my DNS servers (OpenDNS), So that's all ok, and it looks like

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local=/localdomain/
local=/isatap.localdomain/

have silenced to random callings to *.localdomain out on OpenDNS servers, just a bit concerned that Windows clients are still not going to be entirely happy with the world.

Until yesterday I was blissfully unaware of "isatap", but I also see "wpad" floating about unanswered and wondered if there was a good primer for all the basics of DNS resolution beyond /etc/hosts, taking into account MSFT generated stuff

[RandomUsername]

wpad is a potential securiity hole is if you're on a domain with a two-tier TLD (e.g. xyz.co.uk). See here for why: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Proxy_ ... l#Security

[drdr6]

Good note. Fortunately not me:

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Nov 27 07:56:13 b3 dnsmasq[789]: query[A] wpad.localdomain from 192.168.2.72
Nov 27 07:56:13 b3 dnsmasq[789]: config wpad.localdomain is NXDOMAIN-IPv4