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I would like to setup a small Linux (Ubuntu) server for a school project. This school server should forward all the request to the primary DNS server of the network and reply with an IPv6 address when asked for Google.com

How can I do this?

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I have used dnsmasq for similar things in the past.

First edit your /etc/hosts file and add the relevant entries so they resolve to the expected addresses when trying them locally (for example with ping). Then apt-get install dnsmasq and make sure no-hosts is commented out in the configuration file (it should be by default).

The way this works (by default) is: when having to resolve a name, dnsmasq first looks it up in your hosts file. If not found, it forwards it through the DNS servers configured on /etc/resolv.conf.

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Thank you, this is just what I was searching for. Dnsmasq offers a plain and easy configuration file, I added a line to resolve google.com to an IPv6 address and it works like a charm without even touching resolv.conf! – angaran May 7 '11 at 14:28
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