[Dnsmasq-discuss] redundant/resiliant dnsmasq servers?

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Fri Mar 25 16:12:52 GMT 2016


Am 24.03.2016 um 20:34 schrieb Rick Thomas:
> 
> My home network recently suffered 5 hours of downtime because the dnsmasq server crashed and took out my DNS and DHCP service.
> 
> Is it possible to run a backup instance of dnsmasq on a different server so this wouldn't happen again?

Would not it be more useful to supervise and restart the service in case
of a crash? Service management is ubiquitous on the major distributions
these days... and in case the crash isn't due to memory exhaustion by
other processes, investigate why it's crashing, and have that fixed?




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