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17.7 Legacy Series / Re: /var/etc/dnsmasq-hosts is overwritten on dnsmasq restart
« on: November 27, 2017, 04:20:23 pm »
What I wanted to do: have a list of over 3000 hosts, mostly advertising related (adclick etc. taken from https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/) that I want to redirect to an internal Adress (where I have set up a black-hole server wich simply logs all requests but returns 404). I would be very time expensive to add all those hosts manually over GUI (https://<opnsense>/services_dnsmasq.php) so I thought I can simply add the host-list to the file mentioned.
OK, I think I understand that the system is working as designed - somehow (I still do not see behind the curtain..)
Maybe I should post a feature-request to be able to upload a list of hosts?
Or is it possible to add the dnsmasq-config -option (probably this directive is use to point to /var/etc/dnsmasq-hosts)
# or if you want it to read another file, as well as /etc/hosts, use
# this.
addn-hosts=<some-other-file>
OK, I think I understand that the system is working as designed - somehow (I still do not see behind the curtain..)
Maybe I should post a feature-request to be able to upload a list of hosts?
Or is it possible to add the dnsmasq-config -option (probably this directive is use to point to /var/etc/dnsmasq-hosts)
# or if you want it to read another file, as well as /etc/hosts, use
# this.
addn-hosts=<some-other-file>