Re: [pfSense Support] DNS Forwarder question

2005-08-24 Thread Chris Buechler
On 8/23/05, Dan Swartzendruber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Currently you can only specify an IP address for entries.  Some
 clients (such as my belkin network KVM) don't pass a client
 name.  Others (such as my Series 2 TiVo) pass a less than useful one
 (in this case, the serial number.)  Is there some reason this field
 couldn't take a name?  Maybe generate a CNAME entry instead of an A
 entry?  Or am I on drugs here?
 

dnsmasq, the forwarder used, is limited in what it can support.  It
reads those IP/host pairs out of /etc/hosts, which AFAIK doesn't
support CNAME type records, so I would presume dnsmasq doesn't support
CNAMEs.

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[pfSense Support] DNS Forwarder question

2005-08-23 Thread Dan Swartzendruber


Currently you can only specify an IP address for entries.  Some 
clients (such as my belkin network KVM) don't pass a client 
name.  Others (such as my Series 2 TiVo) pass a less than useful one 
(in this case, the serial number.)  Is there some reason this field 
couldn't take a name?  Maybe generate a CNAME entry instead of an A 
entry?  Or am I on drugs here?




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