Nathan Hruby wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Jeremy Charles <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I actually downloaded dnsmasq and read the docs for how to configure it, but 
>> that feature doesn't seem to be in there.  One of my coworkers thought that 
>> too, but when he also read the docs, he changed his mind.
>>
>> Can you provide some details to help show me what I'm missing?
>>
> 

When I first read the request yesterday I immediately thought about dnsmasq 
(I love dnsmaq), but then spend some time trying to understand the exact 
requirement...

The requirement is to take a DNS query for domain E, then do successive 
queries for the host name not on domain E, but on domain F, and if fails on 
domain G, etc... until a list of domain is exhausted. This is quite a 
different requirement, and I am pretty sure dnsmasq does not know how to do 
that.

 > See the -S switch, which allows specification of upstreams for a
 > particular domain, or series of domains:
 > - http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq-man.html
 >
 > The FAQ also has a section on doing reverses:
 > - http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/FAQ

-S which can also be written "--server=[/[<domain>]/[domain/]]" is used to 
specify which upstream servers to use for particular domains, or for non 
fully qualified addresses. It will not rewrite a domain name into something 
else, and definitely not act upon a lookup failure.

I feel that the original requirement is one of those that would be better 
answered by reviewing the problem itself, maybe contact technical support 
for this particular VPN, or change VPN solution altogether.


-- 
Yves.
http://www.sollers.ca/

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