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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]