positon.42 and dnsmasq as a DNS proxy to resolve .42 domains

2011-01-13 23:32

I am now the owner of a .42 domain !

.42 are not official domains (yet). Official top level domains are managed by ICANN and served by root DNS servers.

To resolve .42 domains, you have to query a DNS server knowing .42 domains.

Here is my small contribution to the 42registry.org wiki, explaining a way to configure it with Ubuntu:

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The following allows you to use Geeknode DNS only for .42 domains while keeping your regular DNS provider for other domains.

Install dnsmasq :

aptitude install dnsmasq

Edit /etc/dnsmasq.conf and add the line :

server=/42/81.93.248.69

Restart dnsmasq :

sudo /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart

Edit /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf, then uncomment or add the line :

prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;

Now disconnect and reconnect to you local network, to refresh the /etc/resolv.conf file, then test it !

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2011-01-13 23:32 · Tags: 42registry, dnsmasq

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