Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] A (possibly bad) idea: failover in dnsmasq

2012-05-25 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> I'd suggest SQLite as a possibility. Easy to include, and as they > say: "Small. Fast. Reliable. Choose any three." SQLite was my first option, but it doesn't replicate "automatically". Easy to set up with rsync or something like it, of course, but that wouldn't enable two dnsmasq servers to co

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] A (possibly bad) idea: failover in dnsmasq

2012-05-25 Thread /dev/rob0
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 01:17:57PM +0200, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: > Being very lightweight, dnsmasq must not be bloated by having > a huge MySQL or other database attached to it. I'd suggest SQLite as a possibility. Easy to include, and as they say: "Small. Fast. Reliable. Choose any three." http:/

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] A (possibly bad) idea: failover in dnsmasq

2012-05-25 Thread Simon Kelley
On 25/05/12 12:17, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: > Starting just a few days before the day the machine running dnsmasq in > my SOHO died, I was giving some thought to how I'd go about ensuring > a backup copy of dnsmasq could take over if my only running instance > died. Needless to say, the death of the ma

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq and sshfp records

2012-05-25 Thread Simon Kelley
On 25/05/12 12:14, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: >> relaxing the hex parsing to make colons and leading zeros optional gets >> the possibility of something that's almost an natural encoding in this >> case, and may be generally useful if less easy to use. >> >> dns-rr=44,2:1:123456789abcdef67890123456789abc

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] release for debian / ARMv5?

2012-05-25 Thread Simon Kelley
On 25/05/12 14:00, Modem Man wrote: > Can anyone tell me, if and where I can get a Debian "testing" version of > IPv6 enabled DnsMasq for Squeeze 2.6.38.8 armv5tel? > I don't like to compile it by myself, so I hope anybody here has contact > to the .deb packet maintainer here , or just knows about

[Dnsmasq-discuss] release for debian / ARMv5?

2012-05-25 Thread Modem Man
Can anyone tell me, if and where I can get a Debian "testing" version of IPv6 enabled DnsMasq for Squeeze 2.6.38.8 armv5tel? I don't like to compile it by myself, so I hope anybody here has contact to the .deb packet maintainer here , or just knows about the state. Same question aplies for SlugOS/

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] A (possibly bad) idea: failover in dnsmasq

2012-05-25 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
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[Dnsmasq-discuss] A (possibly bad) idea: failover in dnsmasq

2012-05-25 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
Starting just a few days before the day the machine running dnsmasq in my SOHO died, I was giving some thought to how I'd go about ensuring a backup copy of dnsmasq could take over if my only running instance died. Needless to say, the death of the machine left my small network in shambles, because

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq and sshfp records

2012-05-25 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
> relaxing the hex parsing to make colons and leading zeros optional gets > the possibility of something that's almost an natural encoding in this > case, and may be generally useful if less easy to use. > > dns-rr=44,2:1:123456789abcdef67890123456789abcdef67890 > > Opinions? Go for it! I recom

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq and sshfp records

2012-05-25 Thread Simon Kelley
On 24/05/12 19:17, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: >> keys as "SSHFP-Record"s, so that I'm able to call via <> user@remotehost-o "VerifyHostKeyDNS=yes">> and get a result line like >> "Matching host key >> fingerprint found in DNS". > > This may or not be painful, if you're not using DNSSEC. (You may like to