[Dnsmasq-discuss] Announce: dnsmasq-2.53 release candidate 1

[clemens fischer]

clemens fischer wrote:

> Simon Kelley wrote:
> 
> >           Added interface:<iface name> part to dhcp-range. The
> >           semantics of this are very odd at first sight, but it
> >           allows a single line  of the form
> >               dhcp-range=interface:virt0,192.168.0.4,192.168.0.200
> >           to be added to dnsmasq configuration which then supplies
> >           DHCP and DNS services to that interface, without affecting
> >           what services are supplied to other interfaces and
> >           irrespective of the existance or lack of
> >               interface=<interface>
> >           lines elsewhere in the dnsmasq configuration. The idea is
> >           that such a line can be added automatically by libvirt
> >           or equivalent systems, without disturbing any manual
> >           configuration.
> 
> Very useful!  I can use this immediately myself.  How is this applied
> to DNS services?  I want to run dnsmasq mainly for dhcp with dns
> served by bind-9, because I'm testing IPv6 with DNSSEC, but I can
> imagine production dhcp clients using some other forwarder.

What a stupid question by myself!  DHCP option "dns-server" does that,
of course.  Never mind.


clemens