Route certain domains to localhost

DasJott

I moved over from Manjaro to Solus Budgie.
As I use it for web development and am running a local system where the domain ends with .dev, I want to route certain calls to localhost, while all others should remain untouched.

I moved over the configuration from Manjaro to Solus.

/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf

[main]
dns=dnsmasq

/dev/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/dev.conf

address=/myservice.dev/127.0.0.1

/etc/dnsmasq.conf

address=/myservice.dev/127.0.0.1

In Manjaro that resulted to what I wanted. reaching myservice.dev on localhost, while still being able to use the rest of the internet.

On Solus this results in only being able to reach myservice.dev while the rest of the internet is unavailable.

Can anybody explain that please? Or provide a way how I can achieve this in Solus?

DasJott

Using /etc/hosts as workaround. But I can not really put all the subdomains in there...
Just using this workaround for now, because I tend to like Solus, even though it's far from being perfect.
Manjaro runs jsut fine, but needs way more resources and is not as stable...

Girtablulu

the hosts way seems to be the correct way but I never used it

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_configuration#Set_the_hostname

DasJott

No, the hosts file is not the final way to go. It has no wildcard possibility so that every subdomain would have to be hardcoded in there.
Like I wrote, that works in Manjaro just fine. Dnsmasq does the local stuff and everything else goes to another dns.

Something is different here on Solus...

JoshStrobl

I have dnsmasq set up on my home server and Solus picks it up automatically. If you need to configure it to point to your local dnsmasq on the same system, you may need to disable the automatic DNS setting for IPv4 and IPv6 in their respective sections in GNOME Control Center's Networking panel, likely for the wired connection.

/dev/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/dev.conf isn't a valid path.

DasJott

Solus picks dnsmasq up automaticly, no problems there!
/dev/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d is a directory already present. The file was created by me.

I don't need an additional dnsmasq, I just want to use the present one. And only for the configured entries, not for everything. That worked on Manjaro. The same config doesn't work on Solus.

I just want all addresses ending on .dev to go to localhost. Everything else should just run untouched.

kaktuspalme

DasJott No solution but some suggestion. I wouldn't point all .dev domains to localhost. There are many projects running on .dev quasar.dev for example.

DasJott

Yes, I know. It wouldn't be .dev specifically, rather it would be somedomain.dev with all its subdomains.

kaktuspalme

DasJott I just tested this myself:
/etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/use-dnsmasq.conf
[main] dns=dnsmasq

/etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/local.conf
address=/test.dev/127.0.0.1 addn-hosts=/etc/hosts

I didn't create a /etc/dnsmasq.conf, maybe thats your problem.
With the above configuration it works perfectly on my system.

DasJott

kaktuspalme Thank you for your help!

Unfortunately it didn't work out.
I deleted the /etc/dnsmasq.conf and created the files like you suggested.
It works for the configured domain then, but google can not be reached anymore.
I can only write this, because I commented the dns=dnsmasq entry...
But now I can not reach the dev domains anymore....

kaktuspalme

Your /etc/resolv.conf contains nameserver 127.0.0.1 after restarting NetworkManager? What does nslookup on server 127.0.0.1 say if you try to call google.com or anything else?

DasJott

I thought that a reboot might help after all the fiddling....

And indeed: It works!

Yes, of course I restarted NetworkManager after the change each time. And yes, nameserver was set to 127.0.0.1.
Just didn't work completely. Now after the reboot it does!
Whatever the reasons might have been 🤷‍♂️

Thank you @kaktuspalme !