Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] how to set NS for a zone?

2011-03-08 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Simon Kelley (si...@thekelleys.org.uk) wrote on 7 March 2011 21:44: Carlos Carvalho wrote: For dnsmasq to be authoritative it has to answer queries about the zone by itself, without querying anybody else; if an entry isn't known to the authoritative server it means it doesn't exist. So

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] how to set NS for a zone?

2011-03-07 Thread Simon Kelley
Carlos Carvalho wrote: For dnsmasq to be authoritative it has to answer queries about the zone by itself, without querying anybody else; if an entry isn't known to the authoritative server it means it doesn't exist. So dnsmasq must have local=/the.zone/ in the config. Therefore it won't send

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] how to set NS for a zone?

2011-03-05 Thread Carlos Carvalho
richardvo...@gmail.com (richardvo...@gmail.com) wrote on 4 March 2011 11:55: On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Carlos Carvalho car...@fisica.ufpr.br wrote: richardvo...@gmail.com (richardvo...@gmail.com) wrote on 4 March 2011 10:15:  That prevents it from running as a parent

[Dnsmasq-discuss] how to set NS for a zone?

2011-03-04 Thread Carlos Carvalho
I've put dnsmasq as the authoritative server for a zone. All seems to be working fine, except that I didn't find how to answer NS queries. Is there a way? In principle this should be defined by the parent zone but it's strange that the authoritative server for a zone doesn't know about it...

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] how to set NS for a zone?

2011-03-04 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 04.03.2011 01:01, schrieb Carlos Carvalho: I've put dnsmasq as the authoritative server for a zone. All seems to be working fine, except that I didn't find how to answer NS queries. Is there a way? In principle this should be defined by the parent zone but it's strange that the

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] how to set NS for a zone?

2011-03-04 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Carlos Carvalho car...@fisica.ufpr.brwrote: richardvo...@gmail.com (richardvo...@gmail.com) wrote on 4 March 2011 10:15: That prevents it from running as a parent zone. As Carlos has said, the parent zone needs to provide the NS record for subzones,

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] how to set NS for a zone?

2011-03-04 Thread Matthias Andree
I wrote: Dnsmasq is not supposed to run as an authoritative server - it doesn't support SOA or NS records, for instance. Richard Voigt concluded: That prevents it from running as a parent zone. As Carlos has said, the parent zone needs to provide the NS record for subzones, otherwise