Clarification on roles of networking components.
Simon Slater
pyevet at iinet.net.au
Wed Mar 4 11:49:42 UTC 2009
On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 06:39 -0500, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> 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.
>
These are the types of distinctions I need to get clear.
> 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
>
>
I'll read up on it tomorrow.
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