Never tried it myself, but if you synchronize configuration from primary to secondary server, it might work somehow together.
Consider setting dhcp-authoritative on primary instance, but make sure it is not there on secondary. You may want to use different dhcp-range, so dynamically allocated hosts do not overlap. Dns on secondary should use server=primary-ip as first server, other servers configured after that. Use strict-order to be sure. dnsmasq should be able to notice that server is down and use another address, so hostnames should stay more or less synchronized. I think proper configuration would require dhcpd from ISC, which has some support for failover. On 4/6/19 1:10 PM, john doe wrote: > On 4/5/2019 10:54 PM, Chris Green wrote: >> I run dnsmasq on a Raspberry Pi to provide DHCP and DNS services on my >> home network. I often spend quite long periods away from home and I'd >> like to have a way of providing some sort of backup if the Raspberry >> Pi dies for any reason. >> >> Recently the Pi has died a couple of times so I set up a second Pi >> with the same dnsmasq configuration file but without it set to run >> from /etc/init.d so that I could ssh into my network and start it >> manually. This worked OK when I had to use it recently but it does >> require that I notice something is wrong which I may not do when I'm >> away. >> >> Is there a straightforward way of having a secondary DHCP and DNS >> server on a LAN? >> > > Thanks to Google: > > https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/99xmei/two_piholes_with_dhcp_enabled_on_1_network_as/ > > https://github.com/jiasir/dnsmasq-ha > > The above could help you getting up 'dhcp failover'. > For DNS you would need to use zone transfer. > > -- > John Doe > > _______________________________________________ > Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list > Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk > http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss > -- Petr Menšík Software Engineer Red Hat, http://www.redhat.com/ email: pemen...@redhat.com PGP: 65C6C973 _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss