[Dnsmasq-discuss] query for a.com tries a.com.localhost.localdomain

Jima jima at beer.tclug.org
Thu May 4 15:51:39 BST 2006


On Thu, 4 May 2006, Sebastian Muñiz wrote:
> I am setting up a machine to act as a gateway.
> When a nated host that took it´s ip from the dnsmas dhcp
> asks for a.com dnsmasq tries first to resolve an [AAAA] a.com
> After receiving the <NODATA>-IPv6 dnsmas tries a.com.mylocaldomain.
> Needless to say it takes 20 seconds to resolve something.
> In the end it tries [A] a.com and success...
*snip*
>
> See that it took 20 seconds in the whole process...
> Timeout the [AAAA] and the querying again for the real query concatenated
> with my lan domain.
> In any case I have not an IPV6 enabled host and I was trying to go
> www.uba.ar with Firefox. I have just noticed that if I use
> dig www.uba.com.ar it receives a standard [A] query and works ok

  Do you have --domain set to anything in your config?
  Also, if you want to disable IPv6 lookups in Firefox, go to about:config 
and set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true.  Might speed things up a little 
to begin with.

      Jima


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