Subject: Re: Setting up dnsmasq - a lightweight DHCP and DNS server?
From: Peter Boy <[email-masked]>
To: Morgan Read <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 08:32:41 +0100

Hi Morgan, 

> Am 29.03.2024 um 23:27 schrieb Morgan Read <[email-masked]>:
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> I hope it's okay to email.

It is perfectly OK. It’s even easier for me because I’m struggling to manage to follow all of Fedora’s communication channels in time.

> 
> Re your article here:
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-server/administration/dnsmasq/
> 
> In coming to the end of following your article I noticed after doing `firewall-cmd --list-all-policies` that there's an `--add-masquerade` option to the Policy Options.  So, I wonder why you define setting at 1. under the head 'Masquerading / NAT'[1] and not at 2.b?  Or, whether that option does what it appears to do and if Masquerade can or can not be set as a Policy Option?

To be honest,  I don’t know out of my head. Maybe it is due to the ingress/egress policy (although I don’t think so) or it is a simple accidentally left off. 

There is an issue about that article in the repo, too, that I didn’t manage to work on so far. It’s now part of my testing efforts for F40 release. So I hope I’ll get to it in the upcoming week.

I’ll come back to you as soon as I test the procedures again.

And many thanks for your careful observation and communication!!! I appreciate it a lot.

Best
Peter

> 

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