[Dnsmasq-discuss] Setting dns domain name through dhcpv6

Roy Marples roy at marples.name
Sat Mar 8 14:13:12 UTC 2014


On 08/03/2014 11:30, Dave Taht wrote:
> I'd like to note that we are trying to get away from resolve.conf.auto
> in a couple cases, notably when you have multiple upstreams and you
> want reverse queries to go to the right place.
> 
> A search list doesn't cut it in that case.
> 
> BUT supplying a search list makes sense to clients.

This is why we have resolvconf [1] which makes sense of many upstreams 
and ensures the queries goto the correct nameserver.
Of course, you need a more powerful resolver than libc along with 
resolvconf for this to work.

Thanks

Roy

[1] http://roy.marples.name/projects/openresolv



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