[Dnsmasq-discuss] Info update needed?

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 26.08.25 22:06, Kjell Rönnmark wrote:
>There has been no response to my previous mail, probably because what 
>I suggested was really bad. Following Geert Stappers' advice to let go 
>the idea of "I'm asking only once!", I try again.
>
>The point I wanted to make is that the setup info at 
>https://dnsmasq.org/docs/setup.html needs an update. From the section 
>"Defeating wildcards in top level domains", one gets the impression 
>that it has not been updated the last twenty years or so. In an answer 
>to a question about Verisign in https://dnsmasq.org/docs/FAQ it is 
>explicitly stated that this was written in September 2003.

That impression is wrong. The paragraph is written as result of something 
that happened in September 2003, but it does not mean that the whole page 
was written at that time.

According to HTTP information, the page was modified on:
Thursday, March 20, 2025, 4:40:01 PM GMT+1

>I realize 
>that members of Dnsmasq-discuss rarely visit these pages, but 
>potential new users may well turn to dnsmasq.org/docs for an 
>authoritative answer. If the information at dnsmasq.org/docs is 
>obsolete, they may (erroneously) conclude that dnsmasq is not properly 
>maintained and abandon their intension to install it.

Invalid assumptions lead to invalid conclusions, but it is not our fault.
Recreating issue from 2003 is not good idea just to have newer date in 
documentation.

> Doesn't anyone 
>see the need to update these pages? Is there nobody who can find some 
>time to update them to help new users to get started?

What exactly do you want to update?

I only see possibility of mentioning different OSes in "Installation" 
paragraph.

And perhaps mention that some ISPs do the same shit Verisign did in 
September 2003.

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