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On Ubuntu 14.04 I'm using dnsmasq to resolve wildcard example.com domains to the local machine (desktop computer at home).

After much reading around I cannot for the life of me sort out the same on a clean install of 18.04.

All I want to achieve at the moment is:

• for ping example.com to ping 127.0.0.1 and not 93.184.216.34;
• for ping anysubdomain.example.com to also ping 127.0.0.1;
• and for ping google.com to ping the real google.com via the router/IP DNS.

Surely this must be simple, even trivial?

But I'm stumped. I can get the example.com's resolving but only at the expense of breaking everything else.

How can I do this?