[Dnsmasq-discuss] reducing SPOFs
Hi Gang, At the moment I have an /etc/hosts with all the internal machines on my home LAN, served by dnsmasq (which does the Right Thing - Thanks for a decent program) as DHCP / DNS server, however I'd like to have a second DNS server (hey, if DHCP goes down all bets are off) as a backup. I have a wrt-54g running dd-wrt as an access point downstairs - would this be the best way? if so, is the simplest way to sync /etc/hosts from my master onto it and run in DNS only mode? (plan B of using opendns/google DNS servers means I can't resolve internal hosts) or is there a Better Way (tm)? Andrew
Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] reducing SPOFs
if so, is the simplest way to sync /etc/hosts from my master onto it and run in DNS only mode? OK - following up my own post incase anyone looks through the archives for debugging got this working - main (dnsmasq does DHCP and DNS) server is 192.168.1.251 second box (linksys with dd-wrt) just doing DNS is 192.168.1.2 altered dnsmasq.conf on master to include dhcp-option=6,192.168.1.251,192.168.1.2 and the linksys box has an scp'd copy of my master /etc/hosts and runs dnsmasq with the following config: interface=br0 resolv-file=/tmp/resolv.dnsmasq domain=example.com (well, not really) expand-hosts bogus-priv domain-needed no-resolv no-poll server=208.67.222.222 server=208.67.220.220 bogus-nxdomain=67.215.65.132 log-queries no-dhcp-interface=br0
