[Commotion-discuss] DNS Issues

Dan Staples danstaples at opentechinstitute.org
Mon Oct 21 13:59:55 UTC 2013


Have you tried changing the dns server in the commotion profiles
(/etc/commotion/profiles.d/quickstartAP or something like that)?
Anything in /tmp/ will be lost on reboot, so that's why you're seeing
that behavior.

Dan

On 10/18/2013 02:35 AM, Daniel Hastings wrote:
> I've actually found that some of open dns requests are being received
> and others are not. The sites that of course I do not want to get
> forwarded through Google's servers (youtube, vimeo) are getting through
> somehow.  I tried change the default DNS under /tmp/resolv.conf.auto
> however once the router reboots it restarts the default back to 8.8.8.8 
> Any help on this would be great. Students get back to school today and
> having 30 or so on youtube means our network will revert back to 56k
> speeds of the 90's.   Or if anyone knows how to block https youtube
> using firewall rules without blocking other Google services that would
> work as well.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Ben West <ben at gowasabi.net
> <mailto:ben at gowasabi.net>> wrote:
> 
>     This is actually an open issue for Commotion-OpenWRT.
>     https://github.com/opentechinstitute/commotion-openwrt/issues/52
> 
> 
>     On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Daniel Hastings
>     <dhastings at abaarsotech.org <mailto:dhastings at abaarsotech.org>> wrote:
> 
>         I'm still having strange issues with the DNS servers I would
>         like my requests to be forwarded to on my student network. Under
>         DHCP AND DNS I have the DNS Forwardings set to two Open DNS
>         servers so I can block specific content on the student network. 
>         I enabled the log and found these entries. For some reason the
>         default DNS forwarder that is being used is Google's 8.8.8.8  No
>         where on any network in the school am I using this server.  Is
>         there anyway I can get the routers to forward requests to my
>         open dns servers? Is there a dnsmasq config file I can edit?
> 
>         Log Files: (the second server 208.67.220.220 is the server I
>         would like to be the default)
> 
>         Oct 17 16:46:09 Computer-Lab3681343115 daemon.info
>         <http://daemon.info> dnsmasq[3412]: using nameserver 8.8.8.8#53
>         Oct 17 16:46:09 Computer-Lab3681343115 daemon.info
>         <http://daemon.info> dnsmasq[3412]: using nameserver
>         208.67.220.220#53
>         Oct 17 16:46:09 Computer-Lab3681343115 daemon.info
>         <http://daemon.info> dnsmasq[3412]: using local addresses only
>         for domain mesh.local
>         Oct 17 16:46:09 Computer-Lab3681343115 daemon.info
>         <http://daemon.info> dnsmasq[3412]: read /etc/hosts - 2 addresses
> 
>         -- 
>         *Dan Hastings*
>         /Abaarso School Computer Science Department/
>         dhastings at abaarsotech.org <mailto:dhastings at abaarsotech.org>
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> 
> -- 
> *Dan Hastings*
> /Abaarso School Computer Science Department/
> dhastings at abaarsotech.org <mailto:dhastings at abaarsotech.org>
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