[Dnsmasq-discuss] feature requests...

[Carlos Carvalho]

richardvoigt at gmail.com (richardvoigt at gmail.com) wrote on 31 March 2007 12:49:
 >On 3/31/07, Carlos Carvalho <carlos at fisica.ufpr.br> wrote:
 >> Since it seems Simon is including new features I'll ask for my two pet
 >> ones :-)
 >>
 >> I'd like to be able to specify separate interface lists for dns and
 >> dhcp services. I have tens of subnets where I don't need dns, just
 >> dhcp, and I'd like to not have a dns server in them.
 >>
 >> The second feature is the possibility of specifying a different hosts
 >> file for each subnet. With a single file all names in all subnets are
 >> available to each machine, which is generating noise even though
 >> traffic is blocked. This could be avoided if it were possible to tell
 >> dnsmasq only the hosts allowed in each subnet.
 >
 >This really sounds as if you need multiple instances of dnsmasq, one
 >for each interface.  Then you can selectively enable dns and dhcp, and
 >have isolated hosts files.

It's not possible to have dhcp without dns now. Also, I have ~70
subnets, too many to have one instance of dnsmasq for each.