Caching different record types in dnsmasq

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Published on 2010-04-28T13:03:05Z Indexed on 2010/04/28 13:13 UTC
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I'm trying to use Dnsmasq as a local DNS cache. Unfortunately it seems it doesn't cache records other than A, AAAA, NS. For example MX, SRV, NAPTR are tried every time on the upstream server.

Did I miss some configuration option? Is that by design?

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