DNS lookup aliasing of hostnames (not IP aliases), probably via dnsmasq

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Published on 2010-05-02T22:31:43Z Indexed on 2010/05/02 22:39 UTC
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I'd like to be able to set up a host, say "eg", to be an alias to some server on the internet, say "example.example.com".

I just need this functionality to be available from my local machine. I'm running dnsmasq on that machine, which is running ubuntu 9.10.

Is there a way to configure dnsmasq or the resolver subsystem (including avahi) to resolve that alias hostname via the actual hostname, so that eg will resolve to the ip address of example.example.com?

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