[Dnsmasq-discuss] dhcp-range for DNS entries: how to gain A and AAAA for same host?

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
 <20210315233512.P_VVW%steffen at sdaoden.eu>:
 |Geert Stappers wrote in
 | <20210315223843.be2shl6pkr3i22qo at gpm.stappers.nl>:
 ||On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 08:35:44PM +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso:
 ||> Geert Stappers wrote:
 ||>> On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 01:39:18AM +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso
 ||>>> For being more automatic and flexible with (many) VMs i changed
 ||>>> from a static addn-hosts= to a dhcp-hostsfile= approach, which
 | ...
 ||>>> However, i stumbled over a problem on Linux.  If i scp a file with
 ||>>> the name of the VM it tooks a long time, and this is because ssh
 ||>>> uses getaddrinfo, and the GNU C library resolver sends out queries
 ||>>> for A and AAAA at the same time.  The A is delivered quickly by
 ||>>> dnsmasq, but the AAAA one is forwarded (thus subject to fail, on
 ||>>> dotless names).
 | ...
 ||>>>   54:72:01:01:00:15,alp-2021,10.0.1.21,[::5472:101:15]
 | ...
 ||>>    dhcp-range=10.0.0.1,10.3.255.253,255.252.0.0,24h
 ||>>    dhcp-range=3fb:1::5472:101:1,3fb:1::5472:104:FFFF,24h
 ...
 |Hm.  The thing to me is that hosts.dnsmasq defined entries for
 |both, IPv4 and IPv6.  It would be great if dnsmasq would treat
 |this as a request to act authoritative for this, and since it
 |actually does serve the A, it should act for AAAA, and vice versa.
 |And if the future would bring the possibility to enforce that
 |somehow on dhcp-hostfile= base, even if that does _not_ define any
 |address at all but MAC (and hostname), _that_ would be tremendous.

So nothing but a feature request for free.  But would be cool!
Interesting the coincidence with the other poster.
I suspend my subscription again, so much work to do.

Ciao, and thanks again for dnsmasq, it is running everywhere for
almost two decades (DNS part)!

--steffen
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