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

[Simon Kelley]

Carlos Carvalho wrote:

> For dnsmasq to be authoritative it has to answer queries about the
> zone by itself, without querying anybody else; if an entry isn't known
> to the authoritative server it means it doesn't exist. So dnsmasq must
> have local=/the.zone/ in the config. Therefore it won't send queries
> to other servers about it.
> 
> Also, another server would reach the parent but might as well check
> the indicated authoritative zone server for good measure, and would
> get from it the answer that it doesn't exist(?!)...
> 

So, can somebody set down under exactly what circumstances being able to
set an NS record in dnsmasq would be useful? It's clearly pretty easy to
add as a feature, but I'm not sure why the need.

(Being able to return NS records for arbitrary domains looks like a
really good way to confuse the unwary, but that's maybe a different point)


Simon.