[Dnsmasq-discuss] Distributed dnsmasq or similar?

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Have you considered running a few pdnsd daemons between the dnsmasq 
daemons and the unreliable DNS servers?

If you're running custom code, have you considered using mDNS instead ? 
(multicast DNS, part of zeroconf).

- Paul

On 3/30/12 7:07 AM, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> I'm one of a small knit group of administrators that administrator a 
> larger (?)
> cluster (~2k machines). Unfortunatly, IBM is in charge of the actual 
> network,
> and they're just to darn incompetent!
>
> So every now and then, the network, services (such as DNS) just stops 
> working without
> apparent reason, leading to all sorts of trouble for us...
>
> I installed DNSMasq last weekend to help combat that, and it DID work. 
> But we'd like
> to improve on it even further if possible.
>
> We would like ALL machines to cache basically the same information 
> (basically the whole
> DNS for these machines - they have their own name space). And/or to 
> share that information
> with each other.
>
> So question 1: Can one tell dnsmasq to always do a dns transfer before 
> it starts?
> Q2: Can the cache be shared amongst all the machine (without going 
> through NFS etc)?
>
> We're currently happy with the nodes just being able to find and talk 
> to each other,
> so if the network (or any of it's services we do not control) dies, 
> they can at least
> still talk to each other and continue the data crunching...
> -- 
> ... but you know as soon as Oracle starts waving its wallet at a 
> Company it's time to run - fast.
> /illumos mailing list
>
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