[Dnsmasq-discuss] Feature Request?

Jorge Bastos mysql.jorge at decimal.pt
Thu Sep 18 20:34:09 BST 2008


I see.
I'm going to forget this :P
Thanks Simon


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Kelley [mailto:simon at thekelleys.org.uk]
> Sent: quinta-feira, 18 de Setembro de 2008 13:41
> To: Jorge Bastos
> Subject: Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Feature Request?
> 
> Jorge Bastos wrote:
> > Well what i had in mind is when a non-existent dns name is requested.
> >
> >>From what you said, forgive me if I interpreted it wrong, dnsmasq is
> already
> > able to detect that and reply with a customized value?
> > Am I correct? If so can you post an example for the config?
> 
> No, that's not correct. My posting wasn't clear. You can't configure an
> address to be returned when an upstream server returns NXDOMAIN. I've
> resisted attempts to do this before, as there are downsides to doing
> it.
> It's exactly what Verisign did a few years back, and caused a storm.
> See
> http://www.imperialviolet.org/dnsfix.html for a discussion.
> 
> Indeed, dnsmasq has an option (bogus-nxdomain) to reverse the effect.
> 
> Simon.
> 





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