On 8/23/05, Dan Swartzendruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Currently you can only specify an IP address for entries. Some
> clients (such as my belkin network KVM) don't pass a client
> name. Others (such as my Series 2 TiVo) pass a less than useful one
> (in this case, the serial number.) Is there some reason this field
> couldn't take a name? Maybe generate a CNAME entry instead of an A
> entry? Or am I on drugs here?
>
dnsmasq, the forwarder used, is limited in what it can support. It
reads those IP/host pairs out of /etc/hosts, which AFAIK doesn't
support CNAME type records, so I would presume dnsmasq doesn't support
CNAMEs.
-cmb
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