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[paulm]

I've (finally) got my combined server/nas up on my local network. Its running SMS, and provides file storage and DNS/DHCP services. Once I work my way through the config for CUPS and Samba, it should also be my print server.

However, I've hit a problem. Machines on my network are getting DNS services both for the local network and the internet. I've been able to ssh from my laptop to the desktop using the desktop machine's name. But I'm unable to access any of the services on the SMS machine by name. I can ping it by name, but I can't SSH to it, mount NFS shares, or access the web server other than by IP.

I suspect I've got something incorrectly set in my dnsmasq config, but having looked through it several times, I've not managed to find it so far.

dnsmasq.conf is as below:

[nelz]

nameserver is not a valid parameter for dnsmasq, you should be using server. However, I generally keep it simple and leave this out altogether and put the router's address is resolv.conf, as the router caches external address lookups anyway.
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[paulm]