[Dnsmasq-discuss] high availability options

Simon Kelley simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Tue Sep 17 14:57:32 BST 2013


On 16/09/13 17:55, Craig Yoshioka wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I know it's been asked before, but just thought I'd get an update on
> high availability options in dnsmasq. My preference would be to let a
> backend db handle synchronization and just run two instances of
> dnsmasq pointed to the same backend; one could be set as
> authoritative and the other not.

No changes. You could keep the lease database in an external database 
and to active/standby.

>
> Is the lua stuff in dnsmasq up to this kind of thing yet?  That would
> seem ideal too me, with the right hooks pretty much anything could be
> accomplished.

The capabilities of the lua stuff WRT to leases are pretty much 
indentical to the older scripting hooks.


Cheers,

Simon.

>
> Cheers! -Craig
>
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