On 02/09/2021 15:30, Chris Green wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 02:58:44PM +0100, Kevin Tedder wrote:
>> Personally, I'd rather have two systems fully operational all the time. To
>> discover that the back up solution is not working at the critical moment is
>> the same as not having a backup at
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
>
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
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
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
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
September 2021 13:45
To: dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk
Subject: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Further thoughts/questions on failover
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
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
