Clarification on roles of networking components.

[Matthew Flaschen]

Simon Slater wrote:
> Thanks Matt.  I saw dnsmasq mentioned in one how-to but didn't chase it
> since I was focussing on DHCP and bind.

DHCP is a protocol and bind is an implementation (of DNS, mainly).
You're comparing apples to orchardists.

  Now there are half a dozen
> boxes, but will increase to 2 dozen over the next year.  Is this still
> within the scope of dnsmasq?

I believe so.

> Realising there are a variety of solutions, I don't want
> to come against Ockham's Razor.

Right, I think dnsmasq is simple but will get your job done.

Matt Flaschen