[Dnsmasq-discuss] DNS pattern response

[Eric Laganowski]

Jan 'RedBully' Seiffert wrote:
> Simon Kelley schrieb:
>   
>> Eric Laganowski wrote:
>>     
>>> I guess I am not communicating this well. The desired dnsmasq
>>> behavior would be to reply, say, with 192.168.1.1 to any request
>>> starting with "wpad.", not just local domain, so if, say my domain is
>>> domain.local, dnsmasq responds with 192.168.1.1 to both
>>> wpad.domain.local and wpad.google.com
>>>
>>> -Eric
>>>       
>> That's not possible. If one wanted to implement it, the logical way 
>> would be to do full regexp pattern matching on the domains. That has 
>> been suggested in the past, but I've always resisted it on the grounds 
>> that it's overkill.
>>
>>     
>
> But doesn't mean there is no patch.
> I have this laying around for some time, here for dnsmasq 2.50.
>
> This way one can write:
> address=/:^wpad\..*:/192.168.0.1
> or something like that...
>   
Jan,

 I appreciate your response. Will test is as soon as possible and 
provide with a feedback.

Thanks,
Eric