Configure kresd to resolve a WAN address to a LAN IP?

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Egads that was chore, but I did it. Bingo! Thanks to some more tips:

But to coax the Knot Resolver on the Omnia to respect /etc/hosts I found I needed to:

  1. Add option include_config '/etc/kresd/custom.conf' to the config resolver 'kresd' section in /etc/config/resolver
    • Of particular note option hostname_config '/etc/hosts' did not work! Why not, don’t know, it’s mentioned in threads above.
  2. Add one line hints.add_hosts() to the file /etc/kresd/custom.con

Then restart kresd /etc/init.d/resolver restart and flush DNS caches on my desktop (on Ubuntu /etc/init.d/dns-clean) and now my FQDN resolves to a local IP and the hairpin is averted. Phew.

As a side note I do wish this was better documented and not so hodge podge and experimental. But c’est la vie. May this rest as a findable evidence for anyone else wanting to do same.

I still don’t know what those Luci and Foris configs do.

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