On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:04:06PM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz said: > possible machine for which I'd consistently want to use a name gets the > same address every time, so I have to configure DNS manually *and* > configure dhcpd to hand out static addresses to each machine by hand. > Tedious as hell. >
I've read about but never tried this program called "dnsmasq", it's available at: http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html Some of its features are: - Dnsmasq will serve names from the /etc/hosts file on the firewall machine: If the names of local machines are there, then they can all be addressed without having to maintain /etc/hosts on each machine. - Dnsmasq will serve names from the DHCP leases file on the firewall machine: If machines specify a hostname when they take out a DHCP lease, then they are addressable in the local DNS. - Dnsmasq caches internet addresses (A records and AAAA records) and address-to-name mappings (PTR records), reducing the load on upsteam servers and improving performance (especially on modem connections). From version 0.95 the cache honours time-to-live information and removes old records as they expire. From version 0.996 dnsmasq does negative caching. From version 1.2 dnsmasq supports IPv6 addresses, both in its cache and in /etc/hosts. If you do try it out, let us know what happens! Cheers, G-3 _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
