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

[richardvoigt at gmail.com]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Carlos Carvalho <carlos at fisica.ufpr.br>wrote:

> 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.
>

While dnsmasq doesn't generate NS records, I should think it would forward
the query to the upstream nameserver, which would recurse and eventually get
it from the nameserver for the parent zone.  Unless the "filterwin2k" option
is set, which is documented as blocking NS queries.


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