DNSMasq Local Network

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So far I've learned of 3 ways to configure the DD-WRT, so that it will perform DNS for your local network. I don't claim to know which way is preferred by the developer(s) of the DD-WRT.

1) Editting the /etc/hosts file

This is probably the first place one attempts getting this to work if you have a *NIX background. And it does work here with a **caveat** , once you've editted your /etc/hosts, you need to restart/reload DNSMasq. So for example if you populate your /etc/hosts with the startup_rc script like:

'echo 192.168.1.50    somename' >> /etc/hosts

from the startup script. You also need to put:

killall dnsmasq 
dnsmasq --conf-file /tmp/dnsmasq.conf 

in your startup script. So your script ends up looking like:

'echo 192.168.1.50    somename' >> /etc/hosts

killall dnsmasq 
dnsmasq --conf-file /tmp/dnsmasq.conf 

2) Additional DNS Options

3) Creating static leases