[Dnsmasq-discuss] Authoritative and recursive service from the same interface

Geert Stappers stappers at stappers.nl
Sun Sep 30 21:59:22 BST 2018


On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 08:03:50PM -0400, Eric Luehrsen wrote:
> On 09/28/2018 06:46 PM, Simon Kelley wrote:
> > On 28/09/18 23:07, Marc Heckmann wrote:
> > > 
> > > I am curious though: what will be used for the NS record if the
> > > auth-server configuration is omitted?
> > 
> > 
> > It appears to return an NS record of "." ie the DNS root. Which is not
> > particularly sensible. This may need some more thought....
> > 
> 
> In other software something like the following makes a reasonable
> non-functioning default, when things go wrong. It terminates locally instead
> of whatever root-as-NS will cause.
> 7200 IN SOA localhost. nobody.invalid. 1 3600 1200 9600 300
> 7200 IN NS localhost.
> 

And what A record for Name Server 'localhost.' ?



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Geert Stappers
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