[Dnsmasq-discuss] server-side dynamic resolving

[richardvoigt at gmail.com]

> standpoint.  Anyway, this is particularly where I hit the issue and
> realized that dnsmasq is *just* attempting lookups via hosts files and
> dhpc leases and not additionally (or only) attempting nsswitch which
> would obviously generally include the system's dns servers among other
> things.  If there were some way to achieve that I'd be set :)

Contacting nsswitch would cause infinite recursion in the (common)
case where the default dns server is localhost (necessary to allow
other programs on the same computer to see dynamic DNS entries which
dnsmasq contains by virtue of DHCP registrations).