[Dnsmasq-discuss] DNSMasq script lookup

[richardvoigt at gmail.com]

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> On thing which might be interesting, is to define a new type of upstream
> server (maybe called a look-aside server) which dnsmasq will send a query
> to first, and which if it can't answer the query can return a custom
> return-code "Not known", which causes dnsmasq to then push the query into
> the standard server pathway.
>

How's this help?  Hasn't dnsmasq thrown away the information it would need
to send the query to a second server at this point?

Or is the fingerprint kept in a "not known" table, such that when the
client tries again (and dnsmasq receives a second copy of the query), the
look-aside is skipped and the normal servers are used?  That would work,
but add a non-negligible retry timeout to all queries which use the normal
servers.
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