Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] mixing synth-domain and auth-domain does not appear to work for me.
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Simon Kelley si...@thekelleys.org.uk wrote: On 02/04/14 21:24, Simon Kelley wrote: This is, I think, just an oversight. synth-domain certainly generates Locally defined DNS records which is what the auth-zone is specified to contain. Actually, there is a reason. It doesn't in general make sense to include the records created by synth-domain in a zone transfer, since there are likely to be a lot of them. They could be included in answers for the auth-zone, at the expense of the additional complication that the zone answered by dnsmasq becomes no longer exactly the zone that's transfered to a secondary (since the synth-domain answers can't be included in the transfer). I agree, you definitely would not want to zone transfer the entire synth zone just the records from the auth zone. Actually, once you introduce synth records to a zone, transferring it is not practical at all. I think I have misunderstood what auth-zone does. It seems it is not required in this situation. I just tested and discovered that:- If I remove the auth-zone statement from the config file the synth-zone will still serve records it finds in /etc/hosts. In this way I can still have a mixed zone with manually created records and synthesized records in the same zone. The synth-domain kind of implies that the zone is authorative, so no need for the auth-zone statement as well. dave ___ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] mixing synth-domain and auth-domain does not appear to work for me.
On 03/04/14 08:35, David Beveridge wrote: On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Simon Kelley si...@thekelleys.org.uk wrote: On 02/04/14 21:24, Simon Kelley wrote: This is, I think, just an oversight. synth-domain certainly generates Locally defined DNS records which is what the auth-zone is specified to contain. Actually, there is a reason. It doesn't in general make sense to include the records created by synth-domain in a zone transfer, since there are likely to be a lot of them. They could be included in answers for the auth-zone, at the expense of the additional complication that the zone answered by dnsmasq becomes no longer exactly the zone that's transfered to a secondary (since the synth-domain answers can't be included in the transfer). I agree, you definitely would not want to zone transfer the entire synth zone just the records from the auth zone. Actually, once you introduce synth records to a zone, transferring it is not practical at all. I think I have misunderstood what auth-zone does. It seems it is not required in this situation. I just tested and discovered that:- If I remove the auth-zone statement from the config file the synth-zone will still serve records it finds in /etc/hosts. In this way I can still have a mixed zone with manually created records and synthesized records in the same zone. The synth-domain kind of implies that the zone is authorative, so no need for the auth-zone statement as well. OK. Happy ending :) Cheers, Simon. dave ___ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] mixing synth-domain and auth-domain does not appear to work for me.
On 02/04/14 21:24, Simon Kelley wrote: This is, I think, just an oversight. synth-domain certainly generates Locally defined DNS records which is what the auth-zone is specified to contain. Actually, there is a reason. It doesn't in general make sense to include the records created by synth-domain in a zone transfer, since there are likely to be a lot of them. They could be included in answers for the auth-zone, at the expense of the additional complication that the zone answered by dnsmasq becomes no longer exactly the zone that's transfered to a secondary (since the synth-domain answers can't be included in the transfer). Simon. ___ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
