Eddie's Fancy

Ordered some photos, and on a whim I included one of my favorite Apollo photos. Nice.

http://ping.fm/Pon27

Finally upgraded my router from v23 to v24 sp2; one issue was driving me mad, let me spare you some stress.

I’m using DNSMasq both as a dhcp and dns server, in v23 I manually added a domain line to the Additional DNSMasq Options field. After upgrading, I couldn’t get IP addresses served up to my boxes, a royal pain in the butt.

Telneting in, I noticed dnsmasq wasn’t starting so I poked around the config file, /tmp/dnsmasq.conf. Two domain lines, one for my private domain and one from my ISP. Running dnsmasq manually confirmed it wouldn’t start.

I changed two things in the DD-WRT gui. One, remove the manual entry for domain and set it in the LAN Domain field of the DHCP Server section. Second, set Used Domain to “WAN & LAN” to prevent the ISP’s domain name from filtering through.

I don’t know if this was important, but in the dhcp-host settings I flipped the positions of the IP address and host name. Not sure if both work or if it changed between releases, but as it’s working I’m not going to change it now.

Finally got dd-wrt v24 sp2 working. Nothing like a duplicate domain line to screw up your day.