Wildcard local DNS

[joro_abv]

Is there a way to setup Merlin firmware to resolve wildcard DNS for the local domain. Example : my local domain is "home". So, my machine is resolved as "joro.home" respectively, which is fine. My problem is, that I can't get "xxx.joro.home", "yyy.joro.home" etc. resolved at all. Is there a way to get this, best way would be wildcard resolution.

 

[joro_abv]

anyone ?

 

[joro_abv]

sadly - no one :-(

 

[RMerlin]

You will have to look in the dnsmasq documentation to determine if it's possible or not. This is fairly unusual for a LAN, so I doubt anyone here has ever tried to do that.

Personally, as someone who manages close to 100 DNS zones for a customer, I always thought that wildcard entries were a really bad idea. Just like when some providers decided it would be a good idea to return a bogus IP rather than a proper NXDOMAIN response.

 

[john9527]

There may be a way, but you would have to assign fixed ip's to each client you would want to behave that way. If that's acceptable, you could try making a dnsmasq.conf.add in the /jffs/configs directory with the following....

address=/.domain.home/fixed_ip_address

 

[joro_abv]

Yes, I'm assigning fixed IP's to the machines in question already anyway, so I'll give it a try. Thanks, Merlin.