Any help with the CNAME problem?
Ken G i l l e t t _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > On 4 Feb 2022, at 20:46, Ken Gillett via Dnsmasq-discuss > <dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk> wrote: > > I have several CNAMEs set up in DNSmasq on my Mac server that I thought were > working. If I use the 'host' command to check a CNAME e.g :- > > host thecname > > it returns:- > > thecname is an alias for thetarget. > thetarget has address xx.xx.xx.xxx > > So looks good, but… > > I now realise that all is not well. If I instead:- > > ping thecname > > it returns:- > > ping: cannot resolve thecname: Unknown host > > Which is apparent nonsense as it has just resolved that exact CNAME. > The problem appears to be that the client Mac performing the query adds the > domain name, so DNSmasq needs to resolve thecname.thedomain (which is not > cofigured), as if I use:- > > ping thecname. > > It works. > > Previously I used MacOS Server's DNS (BIND) and a CNAME is listed as:- > > thecname IN CNAME thetarget.thedomain. > > Which works perfectly. However, if I try something similar in DNSmasq, it > simply fails. > > If instead I create the DNSmasq cname as:- > > cname=thecname.thedomain,thetarget > > That seems to work. But > > Apart from being the inverse of how BIND configures CNAMEs, how can I > configure DNSmasq CNAMEs to work without having to add thedomain to every > cname in every CNAME record in DNSmasq? I don't like to hard code things like > that as it could change. Is there any way to make DNSmasq deal with this > appropriately? > > > > Ken G i l l e t t > > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
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