Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Interface-name not injecting name into cache

2016-03-25 Thread Eric Hiller
I know this is a bit un-timely. But I wanted to reply so that this information was publicly available. For what seems an unknown reason to me, the following will not work-> interface-name=wan,eth0 interface-name=lan,eth1 However this will-> interface-name=wan.domain.tld,eth0 interface-name=wan,

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] redundant/resiliant dnsmasq servers?

2016-03-25 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 05:00:17PM -0400, Weedy wrote: > 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" People use dnsmasq outside of home, as well. khm

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] redundant/resiliant dnsmasq servers?

2016-03-25 Thread Weedy
On 25 Mar 2016 13:21, "Kurt H Maier" 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 th

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] redundant/resiliant dnsmasq servers?

2016-03-25 Thread Kurt H Maier
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 proce

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] redundant/resiliant dnsmasq servers?

2016-03-25 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 24.03.2016 um 20:34 schrieb Rick Thomas: > > My home network recently suffered 5 hours of downtime because the dnsmasq > server crashed and took out my DNS and DHCP service. > > Is it possible to run a backup instance of dnsmasq on a different server so > this wouldn't happen again? Would n