[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq for DNS, wrt54gs for DHCP

[Tom Meyer]

My dnsmasq is running on a Debian Kuro-box, basically providing Samba
servers.  In the past several years I've experienced hard drive failures,
hard drive upgrades, reboot failures, and various other annoyances that
require "tweaking" on the Linux server (ntpd, rsync backup, user rights
management, etc).  Net result is that the Linksys is up 99.9999% of the time
and the Linux box is up about 98.5% of the time.  Bottom line is I have more
confidence in the Linksys box than the Linux box for availability, and I
view email services as a higher priority than file share.

 

Tom

 

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From: dnsmasq-discuss-bounces at lists.thekelleys.org.uk
[mailto:dnsmasq-discuss-bounces at lists.thekelleys.org.uk] On Behalf Of Kevin
Fullerton
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 6:04 PM
To: dnsmasq-discuss at lists.thekelleys.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq for DNS, wrt54gs for DHCP

 

Hi there,

 

I use a Linksys WRT54G for my gateway, but I run all my DHCP and DNS using
dnsmasq on a Gentoo box on my local network and have never had any problems
with it running this way.

 

What sort of problems do you think you'll run into?

 

Cheers!

 

Kevin

 

On 19/01/07, Tom Meyer <tom76017 at gmail.com> wrote: 

I've configured my small network to use dnsmasq for DNS resolution from a
Debian Linux host.  Works great.

My servers are hard coded in the /etc/hosts table.  The rest of the clients
(WinXP) are served (DHCP) IP addresses from my Linksys appliance.  The
Linksys appliance is reliable, and my gateway to Internet, so I'd prefer not
use the DHCP capabilities from dnsmasq. 

Unfortunately the DHCP clients don't resolve from dnsmasq.  Can dnsmasq be
configured to bind to the remote Linksys device?

Tom


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