Generalise locally-configured CNAME handling.

It's now possible for the target of a CNAME to be any locally
configured RR or even point to a non-existent RR.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/man/dnsmasq.8 b/man/dnsmasq.8
index 85c04a1..addc29c 100644
--- a/man/dnsmasq.8
+++ b/man/dnsmasq.8
@@ -603,12 +603,9 @@ Return a CAA DNS record, as specified in RFC6844.
 .TP
 .B --cname=<cname>,[<cname>,]<target>[,<TTL>]
 Return a CNAME record which indicates that <cname> is really
-<target>. There are significant limitations on the target; it must be a
-DNS name which is known to dnsmasq from /etc/hosts (or additional
-hosts files), from DHCP, from \fB--interface-name\fP or from another
-.B --cname.
-If the target does not satisfy this
-criteria, the whole cname is ignored. The cname must be unique, but it
+<target>. There is a significant limitation on the target; it must be a
+DNS record which is known to dnsmasq and NOT a DNS record which comes from
+an upstream server. The cname must be unique, but it
 is permissible to have more than one cname pointing to the same target. Indeed
 it's possible to declare multiple cnames to a target in a single line, like so:
 .B --cname=cname1,cname2,target