Looking for a Name Resolution solution

[Dale Farnsworth]

Dazed wrote:
> In fact the first two  sentences of the reference you provide states it DOES
> support local network name lookups:
> Dnsmasq is a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server.
> It is designed to provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a small network. It
> can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS.
> and I am not expecting full blown DNS.  proxying sounds like exacly what the
> doctor ordered.

dnsmasq works fine as a local dns server (non-proxy).  It uses
/etc/hosts as the database for name lookup.  Of course, it also
can do proxy dns at the same time.

-Dale Farnsworth