[Dnsmasq-discuss] URIBL_BLOCKED with dnsmasq and server options

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Mon Aug 29 09:19:57 UTC 2022


On 18.08.22 11:08, Jelle de Jong wrote:
>I understand dnsmasq is an forwarding dns server and I was wondering 
>if there is a way to configure it to do dns lookups using it own IP 
>external address instead of the server forwarders, maybe just for 
>URIBL lookups ...

afaik there isn't. iterative queries aren't built into dnsmasq.

>dns-forward-max=256
>server=208.67.222.222
>server=208.67.220.220
>
>What are other dnsmasq users doing to get working URIBL and not use a 
>forwarder, do you run a caching DNS on the same server and use 
>server=localhost?

either don't use dnsmasq
- if there's already working recursive server, why to use dnsmasq?

or point dnsmasq to that server
- but if there's already working recursive server, why to use dnsmasq?

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