[**SPAM**] Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] ipconfig /registerdns and split DNS

[Joe.Kelly]

Thanks for your reply Simon.

> Use server=/<domain>/<server> to forward the domain in 
> question to a DNS
> server which supports dynamic-DNS. dnsmasq should have no problems
> _forwarding_ DNS-update requests, even if it cannot act on them.

I'm already using that setting. dnsmasq successfully forwards DNS LOOKUP
requests for <domain> to <server>, but it does not seem to forward DNS
REGISTRATION requests for <domain> to <server>. I haven't yet hooked
tcpdump to verify this but since the host is not registered at <server>,
I assume the registration request is not being forwarded.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Kelley [mailto:simon at thekelleys.org.uk] 
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 2:09 AM
> To: Joe.Kelly
> Cc: dnsmasq-discuss at lists.thekelleys.org.uk
> Subject: [**SPAM**] Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] ipconfig 
> /registerdns and split DNS
> 
> 
> Joe.Kelly wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> 
> > ***HOWEVER***, the "ipconfig /registerdns" command does NOT 
> seem to work
> > if the host it is run on uses the WRT54GL as its DNS 
> server. I ran this
> > command on a Windows 2000 and Windows XP host on the 
> WRT54GL side of the
> > VPN and I expected to see a new host record in the internal 
> DNS server.
> > However, it doesn't seem to work. I hoped that the split DNS feature
> > would handle this for me (the host's DNS server was set to 
> the WRT54GL,
> > not the internal DNS server). 
> 
> I'm outside my area of expertise here, but I have a feeling that what
> you are trying to do needs dynamic-DNS support in the DNS 
> server. Ie the
> ability for client to add/alter DNS records. Dnsmasq doesn't provide
> that facility. Adding it would be a major undertaking.
> 
> > Any suggestions? I'd prefer to keep the
> > host pointing at the WRT54GL as its primary DNS server.
> 
> Use server=/<domain>/<server> to forward the domain in 
> question to a DNS
> server which supports dynamic-DNS. dnsmasq should have no problems
> _forwarding_ DNS-update requests, even if it cannot act on them.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Simon.
> 
>