[Dnsmasq-discuss] reducing SPOFs

Andrew Elwell andrew.elwell at gmail.com
Thu Jun 17 08:12:27 BST 2010


> In this case, about half the queries in your network will hit the
> router rather than you dnsmasq box. If they try to resolve a dynamic
> (dhcp) host (like when you try to ping another pc in your lan using
> its name), if the query is handled to the linksys it will answer with
> nxdomain...

hmm, *hopefully* all 'known' devices have a real hostname
(tv,soundbridge,wii,laptop-a) etc in /etc/hosts - I only have a v
small 'guest' dhcp range for unknown mac addresses
and they too are in /etc/hosts with the original name of dhcp-01 to dhcp-15



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