[Dnsmasq-discuss] Secondary/tertiary dns servers in dhcp offers?

[Al Hooton]

Simon,

>You could use teo indpendent instances as backups if they have identical 
>copies of /etc/hosts and you wer'e using DHCP (see below about DHCP.)

    OK, so here's a strange question (I'm sure this is a Bad Idea (tm) for 
any number of reasons, some of which I think I can see, but I want to get an 
expert opinion): What about using nfs to mount /etc/resolve.conf  and the 
leases file from the primary on to the secondary, and rely on nfs locking to 
keep accesses serialized?   Yes, I realize there are issues that I'll have 
to address (other stuff in /etc, known problems/races with nfslock, etc.). 
I'm just curious if anybody as done something like this?

>Each fits it's own niche though and I have to resist the temptation to grow 
>dnsmasq until it becomes an unholy replication of the ISC daemons.

    Yes, I  *completely* agree!  I've managed bind/dhcpd nets before, and 
explicitly decided that I didn't want that pain for my small, two-subnet, 
home network.  I'm not at all suggesting dnsmasq be made more complex, that 
would be a mistake IMHO.  I'm just pushing at the edges a bit, to see where 
they are.  I am *very* happy living within the sensible boundaries of the 
dnsmasq system!

    Thanks again for a great piece of code...

-Al