[Dnsmasq-discuss] authoritative reverse zone

[Williams, Gareth]

Hi,

I'm attempting to set up dnsmasq in my lab and wish it to be
authoritative for various internal test domains.  I'm not setting up
global DNS as these are all internal-only.

I've setup a minimal config as follows:

    no-dhcp-interface=
    no-resolve
    local-ttl=60
    server=ip.of.upstream
    server=/second.test/172.28.140.10/
    auth-server=ns.int.my.domain
    auth-zone=first.test,172.28.136.0/24
    host-record=a1.first.test,172.28.136.10

With the above, I can "dig SOA first.test @localhost" and I get the NS
and SOA record.  I can also "dig a1.first.test @localhost" and I get
the A record and can "dig -x  172.28.136.10 @localhost" and I get the
PTR record.

However, if I "dig SOA -x 172.28.136.0 @localhost" I see the query,
but no answer.  Monitoring the logs shows dnsmasq forwarding it
upstream.

The last paragraph of the man page under auth-zone says that the IP
address and subnet is for reverse-DNS queries.  Am I missing
something?  Shouldn't I get the SOA record of the reverse-DNS lookup?

Thanks in advance,

Gareth