[Dnsmasq-discuss] redundant/resiliant dnsmasq servers?

Weedy weedy2887 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 26 15:06:57 GMT 2016


On 26 Mar 2016 9:50 am, "Chris Green" <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 05:00:17PM -0400, Weedy wrote:
> >    On 25 Mar 2016 13:21, "Kurt H Maier" <[1]khm at sciops.net> wrote:
> >    >
> >    > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 05:12:52PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> >    > > Would not it be more useful to supervise and restart the service
in
> >    case
> >    > > of a crash? Service management is ubiquitous on the major
> >    distributions
> >    > > these days... and in case the crash isn't due to memory
exhaustion
> >    by
> >    > > other processes, investigate why it's crashing, and have that
> >    fixed?
> >    >
> >    > Hardware fails.
> >    >
> >    Considering dhcp typically runs on the router in a home, I think
> >    hardware failure would cause you bigger issues then "oh crap I can't
> >    even DNS"
> >
> But dnsmasq in general *doesn't* run on a dedicated router, it's
> something that has been installed by a user because the DNS and DHCP
> in the router is too limited.

Uhhhhh, like every Buffalo, d-link, Linksys, netgear, tp-link, etc router
runs dnsmasq.

And of course OpenWrt
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