Another computer question...

Black Hole said:
To configure my DHCP to "tell its clients" about a local dnsmasq server running on a HDR-FOX means not telling them about a proper DNS.
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But that's what you said you wanted. You can't tell them about another DNS as well as a 'proper' DNS (whatever that means).
You need to read up on how DNS works.
 
Clearly a local DNS server needs to pass on queries it can't answer to a proper server (by which I obviously mean the usual one out there on the Internet), but it was not clear from your previous answer that the dnsmasq running on HDR-FOX would be able to do that.
 
Think you're having DNS problems. Yesterday there was a fault with Vodafone and their DNS server wasn't responding. The internet was up - I could ping 8.8.8.8. What I couldn't do was set my phone's DNS server to be 8.8.8.8 because it won't accept IP addresses - it has to be dns.google - which requires it to access the IP address from another DNS server which wasn't responding. :frantic:. What a useless system!
 
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