[Dnsmasq-discuss] resolving short names

richardvoigt at gmail.com richardvoigt at gmail.com
Tue May 31 05:28:32 BST 2011


On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Rance Hall <ranceh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Is it infeasible to add the domain name to the domain search order in
the client configuration?  All OSes I've seen are capable of searching
multiple suffixes automatically.

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