Hi Jae, hi AJ
Jae Stutzman wrote:
>> Why not use dnsmasq to do the DHCP service as well as its DNS services? I
>> have it running stand-alone for years, very stable and efficient (as do many
>> others out there -- and it's built into some firmware's for soho
>> hardware-routers)???
Yes, dnsmasq is great. We are very happy with it.
> I've wondered the same thing. I'm not an expert in either dnsmasq or
> ISC dhcpd, so I don't know the answer to that. Maybe Endian can answer
> that question? Why are we not using the dhcpd functionality of
> dnsmasq? What extra functionality does ISC give efw that would be lost
> if the switch was made?
That's simply because of to few time. We never used dnsmasq as dhcp
server because
we never tried. The dnsmasq author implemented that functionality later than
dhcpd has been integrated (years ago, by ipcop people). dhcpd since then
is running
ok and is well integrated, thus we did not change it, since there were other
functionalities we needed to work on.
I personally don't know if dnsmasq actually could *completely* replace
ISC dhcpd. If
it can, it would be surely a try. At the other hand, ISC dhcpd is *the*
DHCP server
and there may be features we can't implement without it. Probably.
> I made the hack because I was tired of not having local network resolution. :)
I took a look at the code. It is written very clean. My compliments. I
will test
it later and integrate it then.
Besides.. The openvpn server integration is doing it the same way, with
a little
python script which will be triggered on connect of a client.
peter
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