Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Is there a way to return an alias in preference to real host name?

2020-08-02 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 07:54:00PM +0200, john doe wrote: > On 8/2/2020 2:39 PM, Chris Green wrote: > > I have a couple of systems on my home LAN which have long, not very > > useful, names, e.g.:- > > > > DESKTOP-978VD5M - An MS Windows machine > > MC342-AE529C - An OKI printer > > >

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Is there a way to return an alias in preference to real host name?

2020-08-02 Thread john doe
On 8/2/2020 2:39 PM, Chris Green wrote: I have a couple of systems on my home LAN which have long, not very useful, names, e.g.:- DESKTOP-978VD5M - An MS Windows machine MC342-AE529C - An OKI printer I have added cname entries as follows in my dnsmasq.conf :-

[Dnsmasq-discuss] Is there a way to return an alias in preference to real host name?

2020-08-02 Thread Chris Green
I have a couple of systems on my home LAN which have long, not very useful, names, e.g.:- DESKTOP-978VD5M - An MS Windows machine MC342-AE529C - An OKI printer I have added cname entries as follows in my dnsmasq.conf :- cname=ben,DESKTOP-978VD5M cname=oki,MC342-AE529C So I can

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] DNS64 support

2020-08-02 Thread Neal P. Murphy
On Sat, 1 Aug 2020 12:39:00 -0400 wkitt...@gmail.com wrote: > On 7/31/20 8:19 PM, Neal P. Murphy wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 15:29:06 +0200 Trey Sis wrote: > >> may I suggest adding an option for DNS64, i.e. synthesizing of records > >> given a specified prefix for IPv4-only hostnames?