[Server-devel] adding custom dns entries on XS

Daniel Drake dsd at laptop.org
Tue Mar 17 16:04:06 EDT 2009


2009/3/17 Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>:
> It's in my plans to have a means to do what you're doing. I was wondering about
>
>  - a conf.d approach
>  - a pre-processor for the .in files that handles ifdef-style blocks
>  - whether dnsmasq or djbdns can help us here
>
> I sure hope BIND won't be with us for ever.

dnsmasq can certainly help. With dnsmasq you just have to add an entry
in /etc/hosts on the server, and then dnsmasq automatically picks it
up.
Michael says that djbdns also can do what we want, and pointed me to
some documentation, but it looked a lot more complicated than dnsmasq.

Daniel


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