On Tuesday 25 April 2006 21:43, you wrote: > Gabriele Persia wrote: > > On Monday 24 April 2006 21:25, Simon Kelley wrote: > >>Gabriele Persia wrote: > >>>..... > >> > >>Just to check: do you have a suitable package now? The standard Debian > >>packages will not have the ISC stuff. > > > > apt-get "pinned version" 2.27-1 > > > >>It will go away eventually. > > > > why? :-( > > Because it's a hack which relies on reading the lease file without any > locking, and with no certainty that the behaviour of the ISC code won't > break it in the future, since it relies on undocumented behaviour of the > ISC server. > > >>You might like to think about moving to using the dnsmasq built-in > >> server. > > > > Ok I will try, but (IMHO) users sould be able to choose both the dhcp > > server and the dns proxy. > > If your DHCP is complicated enough to need the features of the ISC > server, then it's best to do the job properly, and configure it to work > with BIND as a proxy. If the dnsmasq DHCP has enough facilities (and it > probably has unless you have a multi-thousand address enterprise > network), then use that; it's really easy to configure. > > I mean ...what is the problem with ISC stuff? ;-) > > Nothing (well....), but using it with dnsmasq is second-best to two much > more viable alternatives. Once I convince the remaining users to switch, > I can lose that code forever... > > Cheers, > > Simon. >
Thanks for taking the time to exhaustively explain your point, I'll switch to dnsmasq ;-) Best Regards, Gabriele -- Public key available at: keyserver.pgp.com or www.keyserver.net
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