[Dnsmasq-discuss] multiple upstream servers
Geert Stappers
stappers at stappers.nl
Thu Jul 30 17:36:09 BST 2020
On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 02:20:42PM +0000, Horn Bucking wrote:
>
> On 7/30/20, wkitty42 at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > On 7/29/20 7:59 PM, Dan Schaper wrote:
> > > You've told dnsmasq to send a lease with option 6 (DNS) set to
> > > 10.88.13.3. Where dnsmasq forwards the queries to is not relevant to
> > > your issue, you only have one upstream server configured.
> >
> > are you saying that this
> >
> > > > dhcp-option=tag:red,option:dns-server,10.88.13.3
> > > > dhcp-option=tag:green,option:dns-server,10.88.13.4
> >
> > is not defining two upstream servers?
> If you'd expect dnsmasq's DNS server to switch its upstream DNS based on
> those options, that expectation would be entirely unjustified:
> Those lines configure DHCP, not DNS.
>
> That first line instructs the DHCP server to hand out 10.88.13.3 as DNS
> server when a red DHCP client is requesting that DHCP information, e.g.
> during initial DHCP lease negotiation - likewise the second with 10.88.13.4
> for green clients.
> A client will then send its DNS queries to that respective DNS server.
>
> S Irlapati, you did force your client to request a new DHCP lease to put
> those options into effect, didn't you?
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Geert Stappers
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