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DD-WRT: DNSMasq expand-hosts not working

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Problem

I have a Linksys router running DD-WRT (Firmware: DD-WRT v24-sp2 (09/08/09) mini). I have it successfully resolving the DNS names for my DHCP-assigned systems, but only when I fully-qualify those domains. This is despite using the "expand-hosts" DNSMasq additional option, which is supposed to activ…

Error Output

interface=br0
resolv-file=/tmp/resolv.dnsmasq
domain=example.com
dhcp-leasefile=/tmp/dnsmasq.leases
dhcp-lease-max=51
dhcp-option=lan,3,10.77.0.5
dhc…

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Fix for: DD-WRT: DNSMasq expand-hosts not working

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This question is old, but it's one of the top google results for the issue, and I finally figured it out. The problem is that's not what does. The documentation on it is very fuzzy, but what does is adds the domain to host entries in , not to dns qu…

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