Split DNS inconsistencies

[johnpoz]

@zandr:

perhaps by having dnsmasq use a separate file rather than /etc/hosts, that would be a win for me.

Well just use

"host-record=www.fudzilla.com,192.168.55.1"

See the post from above.

So here is my /etc/host

[2.1.1-PRERELEASE][admin@pfsense.local.lan]/root(2): cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1      localhost localhost.local.lan
192.168.1.253  pfsense.local.lan pfsense
192.168.1.31    raspberrypi.local.lan raspberrypi
192.168.1.99    popcorn.local.lan popcorn
192.168.1.100  i5-w7.local.lan i5-w7

snipped

dhcpleases automatically entered

192.168.1.215  w81.local.lan w81              # dynamic entry from dhcpd.leases
192.168.1.214  2012r2.local.lan 2012r2        # dynamic entry from dhcpd.leases
192.168.2.217  G500.local.lan G500            # dynamic entry from dhcpd.leases
192.168.2.213  android-497a3c8329e0a007.local.lan android-497a3c8329e0a007            # dynamic entry from dhcpd.leases
192.168.2.211  Chromecast.local.lan Chromecast        # dynamic entry from dhcpd.leases
192.168.3.100  W7X64-VM.local.lan W7X64-VM            # dynamic entry from dhcpd.leases

etc…

There is no www.fudzilla.com in there..  But if I put in the above, see attached -- so pfsense using outside dns, not itself resolves the public IP for that host, but boxes on my lan using pfsense for dns resolve the record I put in.  So as long as you don't have it entered via dhcp record your fine.

[zandr]

host-record is exactly what I was after. I missed that the first time I read bryan.paradis's post, thanks johnpoz for pointing it out again.

This is great, it lets me ditch unbound (which hasn't been the most stable in production)

Thanks again,
-Zandr