[Dnsmasq-discuss] Re : can dnsmasq be used for ...

[Brian Dunbar]

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Vincent Cadet <v_cadet at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> --- En date de : Ven 4.1.13, Brian Dunbar <brian.dunbar at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> I'm a sysadmin with a request from a developer and PM and ...
>> can dnsmasq help out?
>
> Sure.
>
> ...
>
>> 2. When the resource at bar1.site.eu.company.com changes it's URL
>> (not often but often enough to be annoying) to bar2.eu.company.com
>> edit the redirect, leaving the static URL alone.   External resources
>> don't need to know, or care, that what's behind foo1.company.com
>> is called something else, now.
>>
>> There would be a dozen or so of these on a one-to-one relationship
>>
>> foo1 > bar1
>> foo2 > bar2
>> foo3 > bar3
>>
>> And so on.
>
> IIF all you want is a host-to-host matching THEN all you need is put these matchings in the /etc/hosts file of the machine that runs dnsmasq.
>
> Vince C.
>

Thank you, Vincent.  I'll slap dnsmasq on one of my dev servers and
give it a go.

-- 
Brian Dunbar

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