If I have set dhcp-optsdir in /etc/dnsmasq.conf and add a file to the directory it points to I assume any extra configuration in the added file will 'just happen' without any restart or signalling of dnsmasq.
However (like the description for dhcp-hostsdir I presume that an option I have added as above will not be removed if I delete the added file. Specifically if I put a dhcp-range option in the added file (when there wasn't one in /etc/dnsmasq.conf) the DHCP server in dnsmasq will be turned on, but removing the file won't turn the DHCP server off again. I'd need to restart dnsmasq to turn the DHCP server off (or would one of the signals suffice?). I'm thinking of running dnsmasq on two systems on my LAN to provide some resilience. One will be configured to run DHCP as well as DNS, the other will be DNS only. Apart from DHCP the configurations will be identical and the IPs of both systems will be given by the DHCP server as DNS IPs. So the normal 'everything working' situation will be system A (say on 192.168.1.2) is a DNS and DHCP server. System B (say on 192.168.1.3) provides only DNS. System A's DHCP server will give out both 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.3 as DNS servers. If 192.168.1.3 fails or is off line everything continues to work OK except maybe some slowing down of DNS because of requests to 192.168.1.3 having to timeout before retrying on 192.168.1.2. If 192.168.1.2 fails I will add the DHCP configuration to it 'manually' and then I'll have a working system while I fix 192.168.1.2. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
