[Dnsmasq-discuss] [PATCH] --dont-mirror-queries option
Kurt H Maier
khm at sciops.net
Sun Feb 14 00:51:52 GMT 2016
On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 01:09:00PM +0000, Simon Kelley wrote:
>
> Will try and remember to reply to your other points, but on this one,
> the way I'd do it (assuming you don't have problems with slow or
> intermittent connectivity) is to have one (primary) dnsmasq which is the
> DHCP server for all three networks. You declare all the address ranges
> in the config of the primary, and tell the secondaries to do dhcp-relay
> to the primary.
>
For what it's worth, I've been running this patch for some time, and
it's greatly simplified some tasks wherein I've got
low-power-consumption machines managing a relatively distributed network
of IoT-style sensors and loggers. The default behavior of reflecting
queries back at the requestor was a little egregious in these
circumstances.
khm
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