[Dnsmasq-discuss] Nonexistent AAAA records return NXDOMAIN instead of NODATA

[Buck Horn]

In order to restore pre-2.86 behaviour, the documentation explicitly
directs you to

 > (...) use the configuration --address=/example.com/1.2.3.4
--local=/example.com/

Note that address and local literals match, which they don't do in your
configuration.

But I agree that NXDOMAIN being answered from config is somewhat
surprising.
 From the docs, I'd expected that request to have been forwarded upstream.


However:

On 28.06.24 15:38, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> Sure, that also appears to work. I just don't know what the preferred
> syntax is for declaring hosts that have fixed IP addresses, as opposed
> to hosts that get addresses dynamically via DHCP.

If your use case is to provide names for hosts with static IP addresses,
that should probably be tackled by using a hosts file, or by using
host-records instead, e.g.:

domain=example.com
domain-needed
host-record=foo,foo.example.com,10.1.2.3
host-record=bar,bar.example.com,10.1.2.4


Above 'domain-needed' would prevent that non-dot queries (e.g. for foo)
would be forwarded upstream.

Kind regards,
     Buck