[Cerowrt-devel] dnsmasq 2.66 rel notes

[Simon Kelley]

On 20/04/13 10:12, Dave Taht wrote:
> I have not tried to use all the new stuff in dnsmasq 2.66 as yet, but I figure
> that cero's users are not aware of new capability #1 here - there is also some
> support for filtering out A records and yet publishing AAAA records in
> the public DNS, also.
>
> Anyway, current release of cero has a beta of 2.66, next release will
> have the final, and if anyone can clue me up on how to safely open up port
> 53 again, have a NS delegation, and do the AAAA thing, that would be cool.

There's a section in the man page "AUTHORITATIVE CONFIGURATION" that 
gives a walk through, starting simple and moving on to more complex 
setups with secondaries and zone transfer.

>
> (reverse lookups work?)
>

Yep, but not for zone transfers, so you can't have a secondary for your 
ipv6.arpa. domain.


srk at spike$ dig @8.8.8.8 aaaa spike.lan.thekelleys.org.uk

; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> @8.8.8.8 aaaa spike.lan.thekelleys.org.uk
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 50734
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;spike.lan.thekelleys.org.uk.	IN	AAAA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
spike.lan.thekelleys.org.uk. 600 IN	AAAA	2a01:348:29f::100

;; Query time: 119 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Mon Apr 22 09:29:14 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 73

srk at spike:$ dig @8.8.8.8  -x 2a01:348:29f::100

; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> @8.8.8.8 -x 2a01:348:29f::100
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 29329
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;0.0.1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.f.9.2.0.8.4.3.0.1.0.a.2.ip6.arpa. 
IN PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
0.0.1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.f.9.2.0.8.4.3.0.1.0.a.2.ip6.arpa. 337 
IN PTR spike.lan.thekelleys.org.uk.

;; Query time: 29 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Mon Apr 22 09:29:50 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 131


Cheers,

Simon.