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Last active September 19, 2017 09:02 — forked from marek-saji/dev-tld.md
Configure local DNS server to serve #dev #TLD #ubuntu #linux

Configure local wildcard DNS server

  1. Install Dnsmasq: sudo apt-get install dnsmasq
  2. Since Ubuntu's NetworkManager uses dnsmasq, and since that messes things up a little for us, open up /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf and comment out (#) the line that reads dns=dnsmasq. Restart NetworkManager afterwards: sudo restart network-manager with Unbutu > = 15.04 this becomes sudo systemctl restart network-manager
  3. Make sure Dnsmasq listens to local DNS queries by editing /etc/dnsmasq.conf, and adding the line listen-address=127.0.0.1.
  4. Create a new file in /etc/dnsmasq.d (eg. /etc/dnsmasq.d/dev), and add the line address=/dev/127.0.0.1 to have dnsmasq resolve requests for *.dev domains. Restart Dnsmasq: sudo /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart.

Restart Update: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NetworkManager source: http://brunodbo.be/blog/2013/04/setting-up-wildcard-apache-virtual-host-wildcard-dns