[Dnsmasq-discuss] "NS" records

[Simon Kelley]

Dewey Sasser wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've googled and searched the mailing list archives to no avail. 
> 
> I have a NAS device that queries the DNS server for it's own domain and
> appears to expect an "NS" record response for the domain. I've
> demonstrated with BIND and a test zone file that this is the
> expectation, but I'd much rather use dnsmasq for the simplicity of
> administration.
> 
> How can I cause dnsmasq to return an NS record?

There's currently no facility to do that.

Do you know exactly what query the NAS server is making? Both NS and SOA
queries return information in the authority section.

Doing something which simply allows straightforward "NS" queries to be
answered would be simple, if that's enough.

> 
> I saw a patch for this submitted in 2004 but noting in the man pages
> mentions it.

That patch seems to have passed without even an answer, shamingly. I
don't recall it at all. It's hopelessly out of date now, and doesn't
seem to handle adding suitable A records in the additional section.
SRV records were added independently later.


Cheers,

Simon.