[Dnsmasq-discuss] resolving short names

[Rance Hall]

I have a small home network with several nodes, some static ips,
others from dnsmasq's dhcp server.  all have same netmask and class.

Three of the nodes( two servers, one client) are Windows Active
Directory domain members using the windows dns service for a different
domain name.

Most of the clients on the dnsmasq side are able to resolve short
names just fine.

I need to know if there is a way to configure dnsmasq to look at the
Windows AD DNS to resolve short names it doesn't understand. despite
the fact that I have "domain needed" set in the dnsmasq.conf to keep
dnsmasq from actually forwarding incomplete names.

Ive already got a server= line in my dnsmasq.conf which fixed full
name resolution just fine.

here is what I want to happen:

dnsmasq gets request to resolve short name like "andromeda"  (name of
one of my windows servers)

dnsmasq tries to find andromeda in either /etc/hosts or the dhcp
leases and fails.

dnsmasq can't forward to upstream servers an incomplete name, so it
assumes that the windows service is handling that name, and checks.

If windows can find a listing for "andromeda" fine, return it.  If
not, then fail.

Possible?

Thanks.