>De : Christ Schlacta <li...@aarcane.org> > >do like this idea, hope it gets approved! > >On 1/26/2011 14:38, Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu wrote: ... >>I still had to run a web server (yeah, I know there are plenty of >>small > >>ones), so for such use cases it would be great if dnsmasq had a small >>web server embedded that would be able to serve static content from a >>directory if configured to do so, similar to the TFTP server that is >>already in. >> >> >>What do you guys think about this? >> >> >>Thanks, >>Cristi
It is not a good idea as it is against UNIX philosophy, mostly. (I.e. do a program that does one task but does it really well.) Embedding a web server in an IP address managing software (forgive me this rough simplification) is inappropriate. DNSmasq embeds a DHCP, DNS and TFTP server because these are services that closely relate with each other and dnsmasq does its task really well. A web server is best handled by an application designed to be a web server. Both are domains of application that have not enough in common to merge them all. You might need a dedicated web service for your needs, such as lighttpd or nginx. Vince C.
