[Dnsmasq-discuss] Redundant setup with Dnsmasq

richardvoigt at gmail.com richardvoigt at gmail.com
Fri Dec 23 00:05:17 GMT 2011


2011/12/22 Markus Schöpflin <markus.schoepflin+gmane at gmail.com>:
> Am 22.12.2011 19:58, schrieb
> richardvoigt at gmail.com:
>
> [...]
>
>> See the dhcp-script and leasefile-ro options.
>
> Duh, I completely missed that option when reading the man page. This
> looks like it would enable two servers to be working in parallel.

It doesn't really help with load-balancing, because dnsmasq still
keeps the list in memory and only uses the script to read the database
during startup.  But for a cold-spare scenario (the backup dnsmasq
process doesn't start until the primary fails) it should work well.

>
> Thanks,
> Markus
>
>
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