On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Tarjei Huse wrote: > Quoting John H Terpstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Tarjei Huse wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I would like to make Sambaadmins aware of the simple and powerfull program > > > dnsmasq. > > > > > > It makes setting up a caching dnsserver + dhcp-server that maps local > > machines > > > to the local domain a breeze, something that is missing in the samba howto > > > collection (http://www.bibsyst.no/samba/docs/man/DNSDHCP.html#id2981727). > > The missing chapters will all be committed to CVS on April 5th, the date > > the I expect to obtain Prentice Hall approval to release the entire > > "The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide" to public CVS. > Yppi! :-) > > > I've been running it for two months now, so I felt it was time to recomend > > it to > > > others. > > What benefits does this provide that a local DHCP and DNS server can not > > provide? > > Dnsmasq is a local dnsserver. > > It is not, however a fullblown implement-all-rfc's DNS server like Bind or a > fullblown DHCP-server. However, it delivers most of the things you need if > you're a local admin who has to set this up: > - It provides simple caching dns > - a viable DHCP'server that throws the hosts into the local dnsserver. (this > gives a speedup when browsing samba-networks I think). > - a simple local dns (it reads the entries out of /etc/hosts) > > So it just saves me (and you) hours of hacking bind and dhcpd configfiles. I > thought that was worth telling about.
Absolutely. I meant no negatives by implication or otherwise. From my part, we must do all we can to make it easy to deploy open source software. Thanks. - John T. > > Tarjei > > > > > - John T. > > > > > URL: http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html > > > > > > Disclaimer: > > > I am not affiliated with the project in any way, but a simple solution for > > > combining dns and dhcp has bugged me for so long that I thought others > > might > > > like this tip. > > > > > > Tarjei > > > > > > > -- > > John H Terpstra > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Mob: 920 63 413 > > -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
