dnsmasq cookbook

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Requirements

Platform:

Tested on:

Ubuntu 12.04

Usage

Attributes

General

• default['dnsmasq']['domain'] - The default domain used when resolving domains names, as well as for DHCP clients.

DHCP

• default['dnsmasq']['dhcp']['dhcp_range'] - The DHCP range to be used by the dhcp server. This includes the TTL value at the end of the range in a standard dnsmasq config. For example:

    # Assigns clients IPs from 192.168.0.50 - 192.168.0.150 with a 12
    # hour lease expiration.
    192.168.0.50,192.168.0.150,12h

• default['dnsmasq']['dhcp']['dhcp_hosts'] - An array of static hosts to be assign specific IP address via DHCP. For example:

    # This will assign the IP 192.168.0.20 to the network adapter wit
    # the MAC address `11:22:33:44:55:66`.
    [
      "11:22:33:44:55:66,192.168.0.60"
    ]

• default['dnsmasq']['dhcp']['default_route'] - This is the default route to use for all DHCP clients. This defaults to the IP where the DHCP server is running.

DNS

• default['dnsmasq']['dns']['domain-needed'] - Never forward plain names (without a dot or domain part)

• default['dnsmasq']['dns']['bogus-priv'] - Never forward addresses in the non-routed address spaces.

• default['dnsmasq']['dns']['expand-hosts'] - Set this if you want to have a domain automatically added to simple names in a hosts-file.

• default['dnsmasq']['dns']['nameservers'] - An array of the IP addresses to forward DNS requests to. For instance, for Google public DNS use:

    [
      '8.8.8.8',
      '8.8.4.4'
    ]

• default['dnsmasq']['dns']['hosts'] - This should be an array of hashes with the domain as the key and the ip as the value. For example:

    {
      "test1.com" => "10.0.0.1",
      "test2.com" => "10.0.0.2"
    }

Recipes

default

Installs dnsmasq package and defines service.

dhcp

Configures dnsmasq as a DHCP server.

dns

Configures dnsmasq as a DNS cache server.

Author

Author:: Matt Outten ([email protected])