On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 21:25 -0700, Phil Dibowitz wrote: > On 03/12/2012 05:40 PM, Scott Talbert wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > >>> I also have gone back and forth on this a lot. My thought for the first > >>> round > >>> was going to be setting up ISC DHCP (or one of the others). I don't much > >>> like > >>> the idea of maintaining our own, even though it's pared down. > >> > >> Have you guys looked at how other projects achieve similar goals? Not > >> the same, but similar...the one that occurred to me is how > >> virt-manager / libvirt handle it, since they need the host system to act > >> as a DHCP server for guest systems. I believe libvirt uses dnsmasq for > >> this. It occurs to me that dd-wrt also uses dnsmasq. So it seems like > >> maybe that's a good candidate to use when you need a plug-in DHCP server > >> like this. > > > > Adam, good idea. I'll take a look at dnsmasq (and see what else is out > > there). > > I wouldn't want to distribute dnsmasq with concordance. Using this still > requires the user to setup something additional. > > If we wanted to go that route, I would probably say we provide example configs > for dnsmasq, bind, etc. > > Unless I'm missing something... but it seems like just a lightweight daemon > you'd install and configure. But we could provide a config file for dnsmasq > just as easily as we could provide a config stanza/file for ISC DHCP.
Sure, that was my thought. I imagine it's easily available on most platforms. Of course, if another server is more widely available that might be a point in its favour. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ concordance-devel mailing list concordance-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/concordance-devel
