[Dnsmasq-discuss] Re: ISC leasefile removal

[Simon Kelley]

Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Simon Kelley" <simon at thekelleys.org.uk>
> To: "Jeb Campbell" <jebc at c4solutions.net>
> Cc: "dnsmasq discussion list" <dnsmasq-discuss at lists.thekelleys.org.uk>
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 5:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] v2.34 on Openbsd 4.0 (fix)
> 
> 
> ...
> 
>>>One last thing -- as a temp fix last night, I recompiled dnsmasq to read
>>>ISC lease files and it works great, but the source says that this will
>>>go away soon -- is it just not maintainable?
>>>
>>
>>The main motivation for getting rid of it is that it's a hack which
>>depends on the ISC leasefile format not changing, and is rather
>>race-condition prone. Very few people use it, and it's quite likely that
>>it will get inadvertently broken. My plan is to remove it in the first
>>release after Debian "etch", which might well be 2.35.
>>
> 
> Please don't remove it now and not so fast after.
> 
> We need it on IPCop actually.
> We have planned to test other solutions on the next major IPCop version but
> development is actually not so fast.
> 
> Gilles Espinasse maintainer of IPcop v1.4
> 
> 
> 

It can be left in place whilst you are still using it.

Have you condidered using the dnsmasq built-in DHCP server instead of 
the ISC one? I took a look at your documentation, and the only thing I 
can see which would not work out of the box is enable/disable BOOTP. 
Dnsmasq will always honour BOOTP requests from hosts with 
fixed-addresses, it has to be enabled with a flag for dynamic address 
allocation. It would be trivial to add another flag to disable it 
completely.

The dnsmasq DHCP server is pretty mature now: most of the *wrt distros 
are using it, for instance, which is a similar application to IPcop.


Cheers,

Simon.