[Dnsmasq-discuss] Re : Feature request for dhcp-hostfiles to behave like addn-hosts

2010-12-16 Thread Vincent Cadet
Simon Kelley wrote: ... > > A tangential question, I've increased MAXLEASES to > > > > #define MAXLEASES 16384 > > > > in config.h. Is there any danger in having this many leases and > > increasing this even higher if necessary? I'm a few weeks away from > > being able to test this at scale

[Dnsmasq-discuss] Re : Re : Feature request for dhcp-hostfiles to behave like addn-hosts

2010-12-16 Thread Vincent Cadet
ads and processes (though they strongly discourage that: «threads are evil»). They use a reader/writer lock mechanism. So it looks like it can be done. I have no idea about the impact upon performance though. See http://www.sqlite.org/faq.html#q5 Vince ___ > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:43 PM

[Dnsmasq-discuss] Re : [suggestion] tiny embedded web server

2011-01-27 Thread Vincent Cadet
>De : Christ Schlacta > >do like this idea, hope it gets approved! > >On 1/26/2011 14:38, Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu wrote: ... >>I still had to run a web server (yeah, I know there are plenty of >>small > >>ones), so for such use cases it would be great if dnsmasq had a small

[Dnsmasq-discuss] Re : cooperation with samba?

2011-02-08 Thread Vincent Cadet
> Data Control Systems - Mike Elkevizth once wrote: > >I agree completely with this. I currently use dnsmasq with a samba 3 domain >and > > >do not want to have to abandon dnsmasq to utilize samba 4. ... > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Helmut Hullen wrote: > in the samba mailinglist there

[Dnsmasq-discuss] About requests on handling URL

2011-07-03 Thread Vincent Cadet
Hi. Due to recent requests on URL handling (such as embedded web server or URL redirection) wouldn't it be a good idea to advertise features dnsmasq doesn't target and will not do on dnsmasq web site for permanent reference? I also thought about summarizing a few good ideas which have been subm

[Dnsmasq-discuss] Re : Announce: release candidate dnsmasq-2.60rc1

2012-02-29 Thread Vincent Cadet
Hi Simon. [...] >> # pmake way to learn path of Makefile >> TOP != echo `pwd`/ >> # GNU make way to learn path of Makefile >> TOP ?= $(shell pwd) >> >> This leads to: >> >> Makefile:38: *** missing separator. Stop. >> >> Apparently it doesn't like the first TOP line. >> >>[...]  I'm u

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] A (possibly bad) idea: failover in dnsmasq

2012-05-26 Thread Vincent Cadet
> > This active-passive scheme shouldn't need any dnsmasq > changes, and > > arranging to monitor server instances and start a new > one when an > > existing one goes down is a solved problem: it's > exactly what heartbeat > > does. > > > > Building a heartbeat harness to run dnsmasq > active-pass

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] A (possibly bad) idea: failover in dnsmasq

2012-05-26 Thread Vincent Cadet
--- On Sat 26.5.12, Simon Kelley wrote : ... > > What if there be a heartbeat link in dnsmasq through > which the active > > dnsmasq would stream changes (or the whole block of > data) to the > > passive instance along with keep-alive probes? > > That has attractions: Both dnsmasq instances could

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] A (possibly bad) idea: failover in dnsmasq

2012-05-26 Thread Vincent Cadet
--- On Sat 26.5.12, Simon Kelley wrote : Oops I had overlooked there is already such configuration :D Sorry for the noise. ... > Need to wonder about security, since connections to the > primary can mess with things. > > This only works with one primary and one secondary: if there > are multipl

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Removing a feature does anyone rely on this?

2012-07-02 Thread Vincent Cadet
Hello Helmut. > De: Helmut Hullen > Date: Lundi 2 juillet 2012, 5h42 > But it seems to be a bit more difficult to change  > automatically something like > >     dhcp-range=eth0,192.168.0.10,static >     dhcp-range=eth1,192.168.1,10,static >     dhcp-range=eth2,192.168.17.10-192.168,28.250 > >

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Removing a feature does anyone rely on this?

2012-07-02 Thread Vincent Cadet
> De: Helmut Hullen > > Although you don't like udev, I think it's an important > > part of your final solution. > > Sorry - I disagree. "udev" moves the problems, it doesn't > solve them. Okay, let's rephrase it and be accurate: udev does *not* solve your problem. Instead udev provides more ap

[Dnsmasq-discuss] Re : how to handle the local domain (A, PTR)

2012-07-30 Thread Vincent Cadet
Hello Wojtek. --- En date de : Ven 27.7.12, Wojtek Swiatek a écrit : > Hello, > > I set up dnsmasq on my home network to replace the isc/bind > legacy > system :) when changing the architecture. The setup relies > on a debian > which acts as the router/firewall/"master of all truth" > (DNS, nt

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Re : how to handle the local domain (A, PTR)

2012-08-01 Thread Vincent Cadet
Jan Seiffert a écrit : [snip] > .local is also burned on Windows. > To many people own iGadgets, which need iTunes, and iTunes > installs > Bonjour... > The Linux Desktop cabal also pushes hard for avahi, which > burns .local > nearly everywhere. > > Simply use .lan. > I renamed all nets i coul

[Dnsmasq-discuss] Re : can dnsmasq be used for ...

2013-01-04 Thread Vincent Cadet
--- En date de : Ven 4.1.13, Brian Dunbar a écrit : > I'm a sysadmin with a request from a developer and PM and ... > can dnsmasq help out? Sure. ... > 2. When the resource at bar1.site.eu.company.com changes it's URL > (not often but often enough to be annoying) to bar2.eu.company.com > edit

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Serving out NetBIOS reverse results?

2013-08-28 Thread Vincent Cadet
Hi Jarno. > > De : Jarno Elonen > >Hi, > [...] >5) Reverse queries against dnsmasq work for hosts that are manually >entered into /etc/hosts >...but, obviously... >6) "nslookup 192.168.1.68" on the server gives "** server can't find >68.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.: N

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Serving out NetBIOS reverse results?

2013-08-28 Thread Vincent Cadet
> De : Jarno Elonen > Envoyé le : Mercredi 28 août 2013 9h47 > Hi Vincent, ... > Manual entries in /etc/hosts work for me too, but I was interested in > trying if dnsmasq could also be made to serve reverse queries for the > dynamic NetBIOS names. That is, names that (DHCP-configured) Windows

[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq seems to ignore or not wait for DNS servers behind a VPN

2009-09-13 Thread Vincent Cadet
Hi people. I've installed *dnsmasq-2.49* under Gentoo. It runs concurrently with OpenResolv, which I need to add DNS server IP's to the resolver when I use my VPN connections. Actually OpenResolv acts upon */etc/dnsmasq-resolv.conf* and */etc/dnsmasq-resolvconf.conf*. The former holds the list

[Dnsmasq-discuss] Re : Using the same IP for the wired and wireless interface of a laptop

2009-11-28 Thread Vincent Cadet
Hi László. > I'm trying to bind two MACs which are the wired and the > wireless > interface of a laptop to one IP by specifying two related > lines in > /etc/ethers and one related line in /etc/hosts but it seems > only the > first MAC works. I guess dnsmasq overrides the first > with the second

[Dnsmasq-discuss] Re : Resolve all domains to the same IP

2009-12-02 Thread Vincent Cadet
Hello Marc > For an interactive installation, I need everybody > connecting to my wi- > fi network to be shown the same page, hosted in my > computer. > I have a router with Dnsmasq installed, connected to the > computer with > the server, IP 1.2.3.4, so everybody looking for, ie. > google.com,

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] DNS pattern response

2009-12-04 Thread Vincent Cadet
> Guys, all I want to do is to be able to use my > company-provided laptop > at home which has proxy in the network. It is configured > with a > different domain than my local subnet for obvious reasons. > DHCP was tested and confirmed to work properly with MSIE. > FF does not > work as it relie