[Dnsmasq-discuss] URIBL_BLOCKED with dnsmasq and server options

[Jelle de Jong]

On 8/29/22 11:19, Matus UHLAR - fantomas via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote:
> 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?

dnsmasq has lots of nice features like tftp, tftp-mtu, srv-host, 
dhcp-boot, dhcp-range etc that have nothing to do with a dns resolving.

I would like to keep using dnsmasq but I would also like my URIBL 
lookups to work.

Wondering how other users have solved this issue in there infrastructure.

Kind regards,

Jelle de Jong