"Tauno Voipio" <tauno.voipio@iki.fi.NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message
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> tom wrote:
> > "Tauno Voipio" <tauno.voipio@iki.fi.NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message
> > news:tNPld.463$2L2.287@read3.inet.fi...
> >
> >>Paul Black wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Once you've got this working you can then look at setting up DHCP for
> >>>your internal network along with a DNS server so that the internal
> >>>Windows machines are not tied to the ISP configuration. But you can
> >>>leave that for another day.
> >>>
> >>
> >>For the DNS server forget BIND. It is much too heavy for the
> >>simple task at hand. Use dnsmasq instead.
> >>
> >>--
> >>
> >>Tauno Voipio
> >>tauno voipio (at) iki fi
> >>
> >
> >
> > I am not so sure that dnsmasq works or is supported.
> >
> > Whatever the documentation for this application is
> > very light.
> >
>
> I'm running using dnsmasq just now.
>
> It is able to cache and forward the DNS responses from the
> upstream server and also internal network DNS data from
> /etc/hosts of the router host, so you can handle all
> the DNS in the internal network by maintaining the
> /etc/hosts file and pointing all the internal computers
> to use services from dnsmasq.
>
> The one-pager of dnsmasq is well sufficient for the
> quite simple job it has to do. BIND has plenty more
> of documentation, as it is much more complicated
> to set up.
>
> --
>
> Tauno Voipio
> tauno voipio (at) iki fi
>
>

Well I have dnsmasq installed on a Woody
distro, and I removed it. I still dont know what
the program does as I noticed no changes to the
network, before and after I removed it.