On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 05:00:17PM -0400, Weedy wrote:
>    On 25 Mar 2016 13:21, "Kurt H Maier" <[1]k...@sciops.net> wrote:
>    >
>    > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 05:12:52PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
>    > > Would not it be more useful to supervise and restart the service in
>    case
>    > > of a crash? Service management is ubiquitous on the major
>    distributions
>    > > these days... and in case the crash isn't due to memory exhaustion
>    by
>    > > other processes, investigate why it's crashing, and have that
>    fixed?
>    >
>    > Hardware fails.
>    >
>    Considering dhcp typically runs on the router in a home, I think
>    hardware failure would cause you bigger issues then "oh crap I can't
>    even DNS"
> 
But dnsmasq in general *doesn't* run on a dedicated router, it's
something that has been installed by a user because the DNS and DHCP
in the router is too limited.

I used to run it on my desktop machine but now run it on a dedicated
Raspberry Pi.


-- 
Chris Green

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