On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Mariano Absatz <el.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > is there a way to "load balance" among dnsmasq servers? > > I have a network of a half dozen servers (with static IPs which I > write down in /etc/hosts for dnsmasq to publish), plus about 50 > computers which get their IP and hostname from dnsmasq and use it to > resolve dns, especifically, to know the IP of the servers and other > PCs with very little "outside" queries... queries to outside dns are > mostly done on behalf of the servers which need to connect to the > outer world. > > What's more, for the 50 computers, I have compiled the MAC addresses > and I'm giving them always the same IP/hostname (and no, I can't > configure static IP in every computer). > > It seems that every now and then, one of the computers boot and can't > get its own address via DHCP (I see nothing in the dnsmasq log so I > think it may have missed a bunch of DHCP requests from the client at > some point)... other thing that I also see happen is that cilents > query dns and get no answer back...a few moments later, the same query > gets an answer. > > I suspect that at some point, dnsmasq can't handle all the requests it > gets (it is running on a busy server... but I also have seen something > similar -dns queries not being answered- on a less busy server). > > I'd like to be able to put dnsmasq on 2 or 3 servers and that anyone > of them be able to, at least, resolve dns... ideally, it'd be nice if > it could also handle dhcp requests. > In addition to what I already wrote, you may want to set the dhcp-option nameserver so that DHCP clients get a list of multiple dns servers to fall back on, instead of just the single dnsmasq instance that gave the DHCP lease. > > Any suggestions? > > TIA > > -- > Mariano Absatz - El Baby > www.clueless.com.ar > > _______________________________________________ > Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list > Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk > http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss >