To allow you to create dynamic on the fly dev hosts. This is part of a bigger post coming soon.. The end goal is to document how I create a new vhost in my local nginx configuration just by creating a new directory.
For the DNS, I need every *.local subdomain to resolve to 127.0.0.1 without me having to go into /etc/hosts and add it each time.
In /etc/dnsmasq.conf
listen-address=127.0.0.1
port=53
address=/.local/127.0.0.1
bind-interfaces
server=8.8.8.8
In /etc/systemd/resolved.conf
DNSStubListener=no
In /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 127.0.0.1
Then restart both services.
sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager
systemctl restart dnsmasq
If restarting network manager causes the /etc/resolv.conf settings to be overwritten. Edit /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf and add this line
[main]
dns=none
If lookup doesn’t work for applications and utilities such as curl and wget. But nslookup works then check out
/etc/nsswitch.conf
If the hosts: line looks like this?
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns myhostname
Then move the dns to before the NOTFOUND section and reboot.
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