[Dnsmasq-discuss] redundant/resiliant dnsmasq servers?

[Chris Green]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 11:06:57AM -0400, Weedy wrote:
>    On 26 Mar 2016 9:50 am, "Chris Green" <[1]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][2]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
> 
Yes, but...........

I have a router running OpenWrt but I still prefer to run dnsmasq on a
Raspberry Pi.  All those routers/NAS etc. may run dnsmasq but it isn't
therefore particularly easy to configure as one wants.


-- 
Chris Green