A Kresd Journey

[vcunat]

I’m glad that you managed what you wanted A few notes coming to my mind:

@idpitt

I read that KNOT can persist the cache so maybe that’s an option.

The DNS cache has nothing to do with DHCP-assigned names, really. BTW, on Omnia it’s in /tmp/** so your flash isn’t weared down, and the service as written in Omnia clears it even on service restarts.

@idpitt

option local ‘/REDACTED.com/’ ( Note, the field in Foris won’t let you add the .com so edit the file directly. Everything works fine. )

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@idpitt

(The last line allows me to then give certain devices access directly to the external DNS, working around the KNOT issue of vending unusuable domain names. )

I’m sorry that you have to wait so much for libknot workaround to arrive to Omnia; there are other threads on this, e.g.: Yamaha receiver problem with Knot DNS - #35 by vcunat - Turris Omnia - Turris forum

@idpitt

Now onto /etc/config/kresd. Not many changes:

hints.add_hosts(‘/etc/hosts’)

I think this is a bit risky. IIRC the script handling DHCP updates does clear the hints occasionally when refreshing the state from DHCP. It should be better to add hosts-like files like this: Knot resolver (i.e. kresd) - DNS advanced settings for Omnia and MOX [Turris wiki]