Tom Meyer wrote:
My dnsmasq is running on a Debian Kuro-box, basically providing Samba
servers. In the past several years I’ve experienced hard drive
failures, hard drive upgrades, reboot failures, and various other
annoyances that require “tweaking” on the Linux server (ntpd, rsync
backup, user rights management, etc). Net result is that the Linksys is
up 99.9999% of the time and the Linux box is up about 98.5% of the
time. Bottom line is I have more confidence in the Linksys box than the
Linux box for availability, and I view email services as a higher
priority than file share.
You have lots of options:
1) Flash your wrt54G with DD-wrt or OpenWRT. Then you get dnsmasq
running on the 45G.
2) Move DHCP to dnsmasq running on the Debian box and use longish lease
times. If the DHCP server is unavailable for short while, the clients
will just keep going and renew when the server comes back. The server
can be down for half the lease time without any problems at all.
3) configure dnsmasq to use the linksys box as upstream server, maybe
only for a local domain. This will only work if the Linksys stock
firmware does DHCP-DNS integration in a similar way to dnsmasq. I don't
know if that's true. (At least some of the stock firmware releases use
dnsmasq for DNS, I think they use udhcpd for DHCP.)
Cheers,
Simon.
Tom
* From: * [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of
*Kevin Fullerton
*Sent:* Friday, January 19, 2007 6:04 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq for DNS, wrt54gs for DHCP
Hi there,
I use a Linksys WRT54G for my gateway, but I run all my DHCP and DNS
using dnsmasq on a Gentoo box on my local network and have never had any
problems with it running this way.
What sort of problems do you think you'll run into?
Cheers!
Kevin
On 19/01/07, *Tom Meyer* <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I've configured my small network to use dnsmasq for DNS resolution from
a Debian Linux host. Works great.
My servers are hard coded in the /etc/hosts table. The rest of the
clients (WinXP) are served (DHCP) IP addresses from my Linksys
appliance. The Linksys appliance is reliable, and my gateway to
Internet, so I'd prefer not use the DHCP capabilities from dnsmasq.
Unfortunately the DHCP clients don't resolve from dnsmasq. Can dnsmasq
be configured to bind to the remote Linksys device?
Tom
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