On 2012-03-23 07:56, Jack Bates wrote:
> Thanks a lot for your help Lupe. Because in our case the DNS part of
> dnsmasq is unused, I hoped to save some memory by disabling it?

I doubt you'd save enough memory to be worth it, especially if you are
still using the DHCP part. An idle DNS server would use very little RAM.
Hundreds of kilobytes, I expect.

> Is it possible to run dnsmasq on two different machines, and for the DHCP
> part on one machine to update the DNS part on the other machine?

No. For that you need ISC DHCPD talking to ISC BIND, with rndc keys. It's
documented in many places.

Regards,
Tyler

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