[Dnsmasq-discuss] DNS-only On Interface

[Adam Sherman]

On May 27, 2005, at 11:44, Simon Kelley wrote:
>> http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/  
>> 2005q2/000259.html
>> Asks about allowing DNS-only on certain interfaces. There is one  
>> very  good reason for this feature, it would allow for use in VPN   
>> situations. For example, my VPN runs on tun interfaces and having   
>> dnsmasq listen there would allow lookups on   
>> dhcpname.location.private.domain to work. Very cool!
>
> I added a new option, "no-dhcp-interface", which is like "except- 
> interface" but only disables DHCP. That's the best backward- 
> compatible scheme I could create.
>
> so now you can do
>
> interface=eth0,tun0
> no-dhcp-interface=tun0
>
> and have DNS on both, but DHCP only on eth0.
>
> in http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq-test/dnsmasq-2.23test7.tar.gz

That's fantastic, thank you very much for your effort!

Adam

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