PasTim wrote: > Owen, I run LMS on a dedicated xubuntu box. It doesn't run all the > time, so wouldn't be suitable as a permanent local network nameserver > for my whole network. Can I none the less make use of the caching > facility for DNS from LMS? I'm struggling through a load of man pages > and so on which don't seem to match my system. dnsmasq is running, but > there's no /etc/dnsmasq.conf. There is one under /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ > but I've no idea what that's doing.,
I bought a Raspberry Pi, found an article online that explains how to run it as a DNS cache using dnsmasq, and I did exactly what it said. I can't advise on other systems. The only thing I had to work out myself was how to change my router's DHCP response to give the IP address of my Pi as the DNS server rather than the ISPs. On my old router this was hard and involed telnet in on the command line. On my new router it is trivial, one field in the web UI. Plus of course disabling the Windows DNS service, but I did that years earlier. A Pi is very cheap and even the most basic model is capable of running dnsmasq. You don't need a keyboard or mouse or monitor once it is set up, I don't touch mine for months on end. Dnsmasq consumes very little resources. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Owen Smith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42371 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103435 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
