Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Patch with option to filter A records

2021-09-02 Thread Trey Sis
On 7/9/2021 17:46, Geert Stappers via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote: On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 02:35:29PM +0200, Petr Menšík wrote: On 6/16/21 1:26 PM, Trey Sis wrote: On 6/14/2021 1:43, Trey Sis wrote: On 6/13/2021 22:01, Geert Stappers wrote: warning: 1 line adds whitespace errors. My bad! Fixed.

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] How do others provide backup for their DNS? Ideas wanted

2021-09-02 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 10:32:01AM -0700, Michael wrote: [snip earlier stuff] > Hi Chris, > > I am sure there are some good guides out there for learning docker.  I just > learned by just picking a project that I wanted to try and set out to get it > running.  You could always run your primary

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Further thoughts/questions on failover

2021-09-02 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 10:44:48AM -0700, Michael wrote: > > However, if you are running DHCP and dnsmasq is updating/maintaining a list > of host names of your local clients in the leases file, then only one of the > dnsmasq instances is going to know about those.    In this instance, I think >

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Further thoughts/questions on failover

2021-09-02 Thread Michael
On 9/2/21 5:45 AM, Chris Green wrote: I'm still ruminating on this problem! :-) A number of people are using docker containers to manage this, one live dnsmasq in a container is the default DNS/DHCP for the system and another dnsmasq container is maintained to keep its files in sync with the

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Further thoughts/questions on failover

2021-09-02 Thread Michael
On 9/2/21 6:58 AM, Kevin Tedder wrote: Chris You just need to update the /etc/resolv.conf file on each of your clients to point them at both DNS's. e.g nameserver 192.168.1.2 nameserver 192.168.1.3 The client will now ask both DNS servers. It will get a response even if one of them is

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] How do others provide backup for their DNS? Ideas wanted

2021-09-02 Thread Michael
On 9/2/21 1:05 AM, Chris Green wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 01:04:24PM -0700, Michael wrote: Hi Chris, This is a topic that has come up periodically over the years and I too have watched with interest on how to best manage this. I looked at using heartbeat and other failover service to

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Further thoughts/questions on failover

2021-09-02 Thread Geoff Back
On 02/09/2021 15:30, Chris Green wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 02:58:44PM +0100, Kevin Tedder wrote: >> Chris >> You just need to update the /etc/resolv.conf file on each of your clients to >> point them at both DNS's. >> >> e.g >> nameserver 192.168.1.2 >> nameserver 192.168.1.3 >> >> The

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Further thoughts/questions on failover

2021-09-02 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 02:58:44PM +0100, Kevin Tedder wrote: > Chris > You just need to update the /etc/resolv.conf file on each of your clients to > point them at both DNS's. > > e.g > nameserver 192.168.1.2 > nameserver 192.168.1.3 > > The client will now ask both DNS servers. It will get a

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Further thoughts/questions on failover

2021-09-02 Thread Kevin Tedder
Chris You just need to update the /etc/resolv.conf file on each of your clients to point them at both DNS's. e.g nameserver 192.168.1.2 nameserver 192.168.1.3 The client will now ask both DNS servers. It will get a response even if one of them is off-line. Your solution to move the SD card to

[Dnsmasq-discuss] Further thoughts/questions on failover

2021-09-02 Thread Chris Green
I'm still ruminating on this problem! :-) A number of people are using docker containers to manage this, one live dnsmasq in a container is the default DNS/DHCP for the system and another dnsmasq container is maintained to keep its files in sync with the running one. So far so good. What I

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] What files make a dnsmasq 'image'?

2021-09-02 Thread NgTech LTD
On alpine linux the installation contains: https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/contents?branch=edge=dnsmasq=x86=main Eliezer בתאריך יום ה׳, 2 בספט׳ 2021, 14:41, מאת Chris Green ‏: > Further to my recent question about providing some sort of backup if > a system running dnsmasq fails, what files need