README
1Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:41:43 -0500
2From: Bob Carroll <bob.carroll@rit.edu>
3Subject: dnsmasq suggestion
4To: simon@thekelleys.org.uk
5
6
7Hello,
8
9I recently needed a feature in dnsmasq for a very bizarre situation. I
10placed a list of name servers in a special resolve file and told dnsmasq
11to use that. But I wanted it to try requests in order and treat NXDOMAIN
12requests as a failed tcp connection. I wrote the feature into dnsmasq
13and it seems to work. I prepared a patch in the event that others might
14find it useful as well.
15
16Thanks and keep up the good work.
17
18--Bob
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20
README-2.47
1A remake of patch Bob Carroll had posted to dnsmasq,
2now compatible with version 2.47. Hopefully he doesn't
3mind (sending a copy of this mail to him too).
4
5Maybe the patch in question is not acceptible
6as it doesn't add new switch, rather it binds itself to "strict-order".
7
8What it does is: if you have strict-order in the
9dnsmasq config file and query a domain that would result
10in NXDOMAIN, it iterates the whole given nameserver list
11until the last one says NXDOMAIN.
12