[Dnsmasq-discuss] Fwd: mixing synth-domain and auth-domain does not appear to work for me.
Simon Kelley
simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Thu Apr 3 20:43:02 UTC 2014
On 03/04/14 08:14, David Beveridge wrote:
>> Prefix length has to be greater than or equal to 64, is that what you
>> mean? It's about implementation convenience. C doesn't provide a
>> integer data type larger than 64 bits for doing masking. of the
>> address-part.
>>
>
> Fair enough. So I have a copy of dnsmasq running on my bind dns server
> just to handle the synthetic reverse (which bind can't do), so each /64
> needs to be individually configured in dnsmasq. It's good to know why.
>
> I can't just get lazy and synth a whole /48 or /32.
> Probably out of scope for what dnsmasq is designed for anyway.
That's what I told myself when I wrote the code, it's crazy to use
arbitary-precision maths in a DNS daemon. Then a year later I
implemented DNSSEC which uses public-key crypto, based in
arbitrary-precision maths :-)
Cheers,
Simon.
>
> dave
>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Simon.
>>
>
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