[Dnsmasq-discuss] DNS pattern response

[Jan 'RedBully' Seiffert]

Simon Kelley schrieb:
> Eric Laganowski wrote:
>> I guess I am not communicating this well. The desired dnsmasq
>> behavior would be to reply, say, with 192.168.1.1 to any request
>> starting with "wpad.", not just local domain, so if, say my domain is
>> domain.local, dnsmasq responds with 192.168.1.1 to both
>> wpad.domain.local and wpad.google.com
>>
>> -Eric
> 
> That's not possible. If one wanted to implement it, the logical way 
> would be to do full regexp pattern matching on the domains. That has 
> been suggested in the past, but I've always resisted it on the grounds 
> that it's overkill.
> 

But doesn't mean there is no patch.
I have this laying around for some time, here for dnsmasq 2.50.

This way one can write:
address=/:^wpad\..*:/192.168.0.1
or something like that...

Note: This patch is not that well tested...

[snip]
> 
> Simon.
> 

Greetings
	Jan

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