Re: Late to the party - multiple search domains on the network.

[Simon Kelley <simon thekelleys org uk>]

Peter Jones wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 19:15 +0100, Simon Kelley wrote:
>
>
> > > One thing that Jason is going to do is to modify bind's caching
> > > nameserver functionality to use dbus, so that apps won't have to fight
> > > over /etc/resolv.conf any more.
> >
> > This is my chance to evangelise dnsmasq again. Please consider it for 
> > this role, it's just what it's designed for and I'll add dbus support 
> > ASAP. Did I mention that dnsmasq would be perfect for this?
>
>
> I read over the main page at their website, and it wasn't obvious to me
> if it can do what's needed for a longer-term solution.  Specifically,
> can you give it a list of zones and network numbers (ip+netmask, that
> is) and tell it a list of nameservers to use for those, and only those,
> queries?

Yes,


dnsmasq \
  --server=/.my.special.zone/1.2.3.4 \
  --server=/.168.192.in-addr.arpa/1.2.3.4


You can put the server options in the config file too, and nest config 
files.


Cheers,

Simon.