[Server-devel] adding custom dns entries on XS

[Martin Langhoff]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> 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.

Well, then we'd have to have a "conf.d" for /etc/hosts... this part of
the problem at least gets shifted around but not made easier.

> 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.

With djbdns it would be truly easy and modular.  I had hoped dnsmasq
had a mechanism similar to djbdns...

Maybet the answer is to combine both -- use dnsmasq + djbdns. Anyway,
someone will have to take on porting the dhcpd and bind configuration
stuff we have...

cheers,


m
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