[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq identification

Gene Czarcinski gene at czarc.net
Tue Nov 6 16:41:17 GMT 2012


On 11/05/2012 02:50 PM, Simon Kelley wrote:
> On 05/11/12 18:18, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
>> Libvirt currently intends not require updating to some recent version of
>> dnsmasq.  Currently, that means besides 2.63, they want to handle
>> situations where dnsmasq-2.48 and dnsmasq-2.59 are installed on the 
>> system.
>>
>> 1.  What is a "good" way to identify what services are supported by a
>> running dnsmasq.  The one currently planned is to do "dnsmasq
>> --version", capture the output, and check the version id.
>
> You can query the version via DNS too
>
> dig chaos txt version.bind
>
>>
>> 2. What version do you feel has good, solid support for statefull
>> (enable-ra) and stateless (ra-only)?  As I first cut, I am guessing 
>> 2.60.
>
> Check the CHANGELOG. Given that's newish code, I'd use the latest 
> version I could.
>>
>> 3.  Do you consider that DHCPv6 is supported in 2.63?  True, there will
>> be a problem running more than one instance of dnsmasq supporting DHCPv6
>> and, if you have not specified interface=, valid requests will be
>> ignored, but it is does, kind-a, sort-of "work."
>>
>> If you want full service DHCPv6, then run at least dnsmasq-2.64test7 or
>> dnsmasq-2.63+patches.
>>
>> Comments?
>>
>
> I plan to start the release process for 2.64 RSN, so a couple of weeks 
> might see a full 2.64 release to use.
>
I look forward to it ... test7 is working well for me.

Simon, I do not understand what "dig chaos txt version.bind" is suppose 
to mean/do.

I tried it as you specified and also with one of my system's names in 
place of "chaos".  I got nothing meaningful and certainly nothing that 
looked like the dnsmasq version id.

Gene



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