Hello! On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 04:52:29PM +0100, Simon Kelley wrote: > Martin-?ric Racine wrote: > >Package: dnsmasq
> >there doesn't seem to be any way to make dnsmasq provide > >the DNS servers it itself gets to DHCP clients. > > > >Right now, clients receive exactly one search domain and > >one DNS server IP (the IP of the dnsmasq host). It would > >be desirable to also provide upstream DNS servers IP. > > There's a couple of reasons why this isn't, in general, a good idea. > > 1) The view of the DNS which dnsmasq provides is modified: most > obviously by adding the names in /etc/hosts. Having resolution of > /etc/hosts names randomly fail becasue the resolver used one of the > upstream nameservers directly would be a pain. This argument is already enough for closing this wishlist item as ``invalid'', in my opinion. Regards, Thomas
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