-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2013-09-01 at 11:22 -0400, Anton Aylward wrote:
Carlos E. R. said the following on 09/01/2013 10:32 AM:
The other reason you forget, is that bind is a hasle to setup and configure. I have done it, and I don't want to do it unless I really need it.
Perhaps it a matter of the tools you use. Many years ago I got Cricket Liu's book. It has many scripts and there are many more out there. There are GUI tools to take care of it.
Once I had it set up making small adjustments such as adding new hosts was trivial .... copy, paste, change last digit.
I also used scripts to create mine. I could simply copy my files over, and trim. But it happens that dnsmasq doesn't need any configuration at all! It just reads the existing /etc/hosts file and produces its own things, in ram probably.
Of course the DHCP server does updates too but I don't have to worry about those :-)
Now it would be more effort to wipe and it and replace it than to continue using it and occasional ... as in once every few years ... adding a hard coded addition.
My main desktop computer uses bind. But I did not want to do the same on this laptop. Believe me, dnsmasq is easier. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlIjd5AACgkQtTMYHG2NR9X/GwCfYU/nSjhX2bwrYbfZJIx/0GK4 WoMAn24BXynWyHc9ZRLY2xGNtgNgycP4 =F3S7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org