[LEDE-DEV] DNS split horizon *without* dnsmasq

Philip Prindeville philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com
Sun Mar 25 00:27:33 PDT 2018


Thinking Bind, probably.



> On Mar 23, 2018, at 5:38 PM, Eric Luehrsen <ericluehrsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What do you want to serve your dns then? Unbound or Bind?
> 
> - Eric
> 
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 1:31 PM Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As the ISC-DHCP maintainer, I need to eat my own dogfood so I run that here, before anyone quips, “Why don’t you just run dnsmasq instead?”
> 
> So… I have some internal names that I want to be able to resolve internally, but I also need to provide DNS service for all of my DHCP clients.
> 
> Is there a way to prime a “fake” local zone (or cache) and run a caching only nameserver that’s been primed with this “split-horizon” info (i.e. the local names for machines on 192.168.1.0/24, etc)?
> 
> Or equally, have DHCP prime the local names into the DNS as they get allocated (well, that wouldn’t fully solve my problem as my mail server has a statically allocated IP address, so DHCP wouldn’t know about that).
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Philip




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