Marcus Better wrote:
Hi,
I have configured dnsmasq with a "server" directive to forward queries
for better.se to an internal name server. Now if I have
www.better.se CNAME www.example.org
and a client queries dnsmasq for www.better.se, then it looks to me like
dnsmasq first asks the internal name server for www.better.se, and then
asks it again for www.example.org. a
That's not quite what happens: an A query for www.better.se will go to
your internal nameserver, which will return the information that
www.better.se is a CNAME for www.example.org, and no information about
www.example.org. Since this is a perfectly valid answer (It's fine to
have a CNAME point to a domain which exists, but has no information for
a partcicular RR-type) then no second query will every be made.
The problem is that www.example.org is not in the better.se domain, and
the internal name server for better.se will not answer recursive queries
for example.org.
The only way to make this work would be to configure your internal
nameserver to answer recursive queries.
If dnsmasq were to follow the "server" directive, the queries for
example.org would be sent to the default recursive name servers, and not
to my internal server.
It would, but no such query ever gets made.
Is this intended behaviour or a bug?
Difficult to classify it as either. I know of no sane way to change
dnsmasq to fix it.
Cheers,
Simon.
Thanks,
Marcus
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