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

[richardvoigt at gmail.com]

Well, there's always hope that Simon will have a real solution when he
sees this thread.  Until then, I'm out of ideas.

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:23 PM, AJ Weber <aweber at comcast.net> wrote:
> I may have been the one to request that, IIRC.  Obviously, it was for a
> different situation.
>
> You're right, it's close, but if it's limited to locally resolved names
> (which did suit my previous situation), it won't work in this case.
>
> Thanks for trying.  Appreciate your time.
>
> -AJ
>
> On Apr 2, 2010, at 5:39 PM, "richardvoigt at gmail.com"
> <richardvoigt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> After locating the documentation on dnsmasq cname support, it seems
>> I'm wrong about being a workaround for your problem.
>>
>>
>>
>> --cname=<cname>,<target>
>>   Return a CNAME record which indicates that <cname> is really
>> <target>. There are significant limitations on the target; it must be
>> a DNS name which is known to dnsmasq from /etc/hosts (or additional
>> hosts files) or from DHCP. If the target does not satisfy this
>> criteria, the whole cname is ignored. The cname must be unique, but it
>> is permissable to have more than one cname pointing to the same
>> target.
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:07 PM, AJ Weber <aweber at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I actually have another name outside I could use CNAME for.  Is that an
>>> option I don't see in my dnsmasq.conf file?  That would work fine, I
>>> think.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> AJ
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: <richardvoigt at gmail.com>
>>> To: "AJ Weber" <aweber at comcast.net>
>>> Cc: <dnsmasq-discuss at lists.thekelleys.org.uk>
>>> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 4:17 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] i should know this...
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>