[Dnsmasq-discuss] Running redundant instances of dnsmasq

[Richard Crane]

On Sep 28, 2006, at 4:27 AM, Aaron Tygart wrote:

> On 9/27/06, Richard Crane <craner at haskins.yale.edu> wrote:
>> I have brought up an instance of dnsmasq for our internal network,  
>> and it
>> appears to be working beautifully for both DHCP and DNS. I'd like  
>> to run a
>> second instance, for redundancy, and would appreciate any thoughts  
>> about
>> configuring the two.
>>
>
> AFAIK, dnsmasq doesn't support any sort of failover configuration.  If
> you want redundancy, you're probably going to want to run ISC dhcpd
> and BIND.
>

I understand that there's no failover per se in dnsmasq.  The problem  
with bind is
that we don't control DNS for our network, and DNsmasq lets me supply  
name
service for our internal NATTed systems while passing on other name  
queries.

Richard Crane
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