Use a different dns server for some specific domains

Question

I want to use a different dns server for some specific domains that are blocked by the default dns server. And i dont wanna change my default dns server for some reason.

Is there any way of doing this without installing my very own dns server?

I've just learn that this is possible in mac: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2004062902195410

Whatever the answer is, it should involve this file /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/head . In theory, this file should be scriptable in some way to allow a global DNS and URL specific DNS — Joshua Robison, Dec 27 '21 at 02:52

score 13 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 12 '16 at 06:10

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Take a look at this.

I know this is kind of a late answer but I just tried it and it works.

To summarise it,

Create/edit /etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/custom-dns
Add these lines so that domain.intra will be resolved by 192.168.30.1 and home.intra will be resolved by 192.168.0.1. We can add as many lines as we want. server=/domain.intra/192.168.30.1 server=/home.intra/192.168.0.1
Restart network manager by sudo service network-manager restart.

And that's it.

Hope this helps.

answered Mar 12 '16 at 06:10

Bruce Sun

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Well, this should work i guess. but i couldn't make it work on ubuntu 14.04. – palindrom Mar 25 '16 at 13:10
@palindrom What error did you see? – Bruce Sun Mar 27 '16 at 14:35
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nothing happens. Seems like that file is never used. – palindrom Mar 27 '16 at 17:04
Works for me on Xubuntu 17.04. – QwertyChouskie Feb 23 '17 at 23:09
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link is dead: 404 – Mohammed Sufian May 27 '19 at 12:02
This answer is out of date. Currently Ubuntu uses systemd and resolv.conf to manage DNS – Joshua Robison Dec 27 '21 at 02:53

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 15 '10 at 14:39

There seems to be no DNS routing support in the GNU libc, so the same trick they use in the Mac article you cited will not work on Linux.

Dual DHCP/DNS server is a DNS server that supports DNS routing according to the docs (you can turn the DHCP features off).

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 15 '10 at 14:41

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you could also add the domains to your /etc/hosts file if the corresponding IPs are relatively static.

answered Oct 15 '10 at 14:41

nathwill

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Azendale · Answer 4 · 2011-07-08T04:14:09.903

I have done this using BIND9 so I can get results from a Google IPv6 whitelisted server while still asking OpenNic servers about their domains. If you are still interested, let me know and I will go back and figure out how it did it, and then edit this answer.

Edit:Now I notice that you didn't want to install your own DNS server! If you are worried about security, you could just make it so that it is firewalled, that way only the computer the DNS server is running on could use it and it would be invisible to the outside that you were running a DNS server.

Use a different dns server for some specific domains

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