[Dnsmasq-discuss] Does dnsmasq support cname within same domain?

[Frank Liu]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 1:39 PM Simon Kelley <simon at thekelleys.org.uk> wrote:
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> On 07/03/2022 20:51, Frank Liu wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 10:46 AM Simon Kelley <simon at thekelleys.org.uk> wrote:
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> >> A quick test of the current development code fails to reproduce this,
> >> which is puzzling.
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> >> One thing to check:  having a dhcp-host line which associates an address
> >> with a name is not enough to make this work: there needs to be an active
> >> DHCP lease in place to be able to resolve client1.test.example.com. If
> >> leases are coming and going, that can be enough to confuse tests.
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> >> Do you see the same effect if you use host-record to define the address
> >> of client1?
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> > Yes, host-record works.
> > Here is what I did as a workaround to the cname issue: add "dhcp-host"
> > record to do static IP reservation for "client1", and then add
> > "host-record" for "alias" with "client1" IP.  Now I can lookup
> > alias.test.example.com and get the IP of client1, without the need of
> > cname to client1.
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> Well, that would work, but it doesn't really get us much further with
> the original problem.
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> If you define client1.domain as a host-record, and alias.domian as a
> cname to that, does it work?

Just tried and it works.

BTW, I just realized that Geoff already tried this and also confirmed working:
https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2022q1/016192.html

Frank