[conspire] internal rerouting problem

[Ehud Kaldor]

by 'serve the entire network' i meant just that - listen externally and do
resolution for other machines' queries, rather than doing only caching for
the machine it runs on. as i found, unbound does that and as you say -
dnsmasq does not.

Ehud

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Ehud Kaldor (ehud.kaldor at gmail.com):
>
> > reading some dnsmasq explanation, it sounds more of a local dns cache
> (like
> > unbound?), and not something that could serve the entire network.
>
> Just catching up on this thread.  There seems to be some category
> confusion, here.
>
> Dnsmasq is _just_ a forwarder (with caching).  It has no built-in
> intelligence whatsoever for doing actual DNS resolution, but rather
> tosses all queries to an IP you specify.  The other function it performs
> is strictly local-only authoritative service for your 'inside' machines.
>
> It's somewhat similar to pdnsd, another small forwarder (with caching).
>
>
> Unbound, by contrast, is a full recursive server, that also does
> local-only authoritative service for your 'inside' machines, serving up
> what it calls 'stub-zones'.
>
>
>
> Please see my taxonomy and of *ix nameserver software, which explains
> what each type is.
>
> http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Network_Other/dns-servers.html
>
>
>
> I don't know what your phrase 'something that could serve the entire
> network' means.
>
>
>
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