[Dnsmasq-discuss] how to set NS for a zone?

[Carlos Carvalho]

richardvoigt at gmail.com (richardvoigt at gmail.com) wrote on 4 March 2011 10:15:
 >That prevents it from running as a parent zone. As Carlos has said, the parent
 >zone needs to provide the NS record for subzones, otherwise there would be no
 >way to know which server to query for the NS record in the first place.

Exactly. The SOA record is not necessary normally. And one shouldn't
use that ugliness of zone transfer via dns protocol. So dnsmasq has
enough support (ptr, ttl, mx) for being authoritative. One cannot set
ttl for each record but this is rarely necessary. It even works
without ns, it's just inelegant to have no answer when asking to the
machine responsible for the zone.

If the configs are defined via dhcp dnsmasq is ideal because it
integrates dhcp leases in the dns automatically.