[Dnsmasq-discuss] Global CNAME discussion

[Scott Mead]

I have an interesting setup.

  I have 2 DNS servers, A and B.

  A hosts: .domain1 .domain2
  B hosts: .domain3 .domain4

  I would like to add a domain to 'A' called .global

     .global would be what I set all the client's search paths to and could
pick from any of the domains.  I may have db.global -> db.domain1 (primary)
or db.domain4 (slave )

  I've seen the documentation and I understand that you cannot have a cname
that points to a host that lives outside the scope of a dnsmasq instance.
I'm okay with that part.

   The strange thing, is that I tried to add this to my hosts file on the
dnsmasq server A, and it still didn't seem to work, i.e.

/etc/dnsmasq.hosts
  192.168.1.1  db.domain4

cname=db.global, db.domain4

  This still did not work.   I'm just wondering if I'm missing something.

  On a second note, it would be cool if dnsmasq would let me assign cnames
when I define a server for a specific domain

 i.e.

dnsmasq A: server=/domain4/ip.of.dnsmasq.b

cname = db.global, db.domain4

  I'm not sure if that's simple or complex, but figured I would ask if it
made sense or not.

Thanks
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