That's kinda the point. It is "i run a small router" app in a box.
replyDHCP and DNS are connected, PXE requires DHCP entries, so to do a simple setup you'd need to glue together at least 3 daemons otherwise, all with different config syntax
That line of thinking is exactly why I ended up using maradns for my dns hosting way back.
reply10/10, no regrets, would recommend.
What do you use for DHCP and how do you have DHCP update local DNS entries? Or do you just rely on mDNS to work?
replyI use dhcpd. It doesn't update local DNS entries. I have no need for that.
replyI agree, it also goes against the Linux "way of doing things".
For example, Opnsense uses the dhcp portions of dnsmasq only (and unbound for the dns parts) which just feels 'wrong'.
replyWhen I first came across Linux you would download the code (very slowly) to /usr/src/linux (extract and cd) and run "make config". You'd answer quite a lot of y/n and later y/n/m questions and then copy a binary and later on run a script to put things in place. Then you would fix up lilo and off you trot ... or not 8)
replyIs that the Linux way you are on about? No obviously not 8)
I think you mean the "unix idealized but never really happened exactly but we are quite close if you squint a bit ... way" where each tool does one job well and the pipeline takes up the slack.
dhcpd is probably more quirky than dnsmasq, all software from ISC is kinda ass (also technically dhcpd is end of life)
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