[conspire] internal rerouting problem

[Ehud Kaldor]

ok. and the functionality you just described for unbound (specifically, the
ability to query itself) is what i needed, and why i ended up using it
(unbound).
i had our _other_ DNS discussion in mind.

Ehud


On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Ehud Kaldor (ehud.kaldor at gmail.com):
>
> > 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.
>
> But that's _not_ what I said.
>
> Dnsmasq or Unbound are equally capable of accepting outbound DNS queries
> from machines and getting answers for them.  The difference is that
> Dnsmasq is, in that regard, just a forwarder:  It needs to refer all
> such queries to a recursive server whose IP you've supplied to it.  By
> contrast, Unbound _is_ a recursive server.
>
>
> Both Dnsmasq and Unbound depend on nameservers elsewhere:
>
> o  Dnsmasq relies on a recursive server to which it forwards all queries,
>   and that recursive server, in turn, relies on various authoritative
>   servers elsewhere on the Internet.
>
> o  Unbound relies on various authoritative servers elsewhere on the
> Internet.
>   (It has the independent intelligence to query those, itself, rather
>   than offloading all queries to an intermediary recursive server,
>   as Dnsmasq does.)
>
> Please see my taxonomy and of *ix nameserver software, which explains
> what each type is.
> http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Network_Other/dns-servers.html
>
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