[Dnsmasq-discuss] IPCop-specific question

[AJ Weber]

Well, I'm gonna rip the dhcpd out and let dnsmasq do the work.  I've been running dnsmasq inside my firewall for years and it's been solid and reliable.  I don't see the reason to have two daemons running on my firewall when one can do the job just fine.

Thanks for the quick reply.  It's much appreciated -- as is the dnsmasq daemon itself!

-AJ
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Simon Kelley 
  To: AJ Weber 
  Cc: dnsmasq-discuss at lists.thekelleys.org.uk 
  Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 3:22 PM
  Subject: Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] IPCop-specific question


  AJ Weber wrote:
  > I'm trying to tune-up my IPCop firewall, and I'm noticing that dnsmasq 
  > is running -- without much of a set of options.  Also, dhcpd is 
  > running...and I GUESS it's actually doing the dhcp work.
  >  
  > OK, I guess, but I can't figure out how dnsmasq is pointed to the leases 
  > file for dhcpd and doesn't have a problem with that?  Also, I don't see 
  > any config/parameters telling dnsmasq NOT to act as dhcp server, so how 
  > is it NOT having any problems with this config???
  >  
  > Has anyone looked at this before?
  >   

  If --dhcp-leasefile is set, but no --dhcp-range is set then dnsmasq runs 
  in a mode where it doesn't do DHCP, but it parses a dhcpd-format lease 
  file just to find the names and addresses of hosts.

  This is backward-compatible to dnsmasq version 1: it's code I've been 
  trying to remove for years, but IPcop is still holding out by using it. 
  The standard dnsmasq releases and most distro packages don't compile-in 
  the facility, you have to edit the config  file and rebuild to get it.

  Cheers,

  Simon.


  > Thanks for any insight.
  >  
  > -AJ
  > 
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