[Dnsmasq-discuss] i should know this...

[richardvoigt at gmail.com]

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:47 PM, AJ Weber <aweber at comcast.net> wrote:
> Is there a way to add "exceptions" to when you have a "local-only"
> ("local=my-domain.com") directive?
>
> For example, I would like to allow global DNS to serve the name for my
> website (even internally) which is www.my-domain.com, of course, but would
> like to continue to only resolve others from my dnsmasq.
>
> Something like an exception to the "local" for a specific hostname?
>
> I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one that would need this, right?

I think you can CNAME the hostname within the local domain to a
hostname outside.  Then the IP address would be requested from the
upstream server.  Of course the upstream server would then need two A
records for the host.  Is this a reasonable workaround for you?


>
> Thanks,
> AJ
>
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