Re: [Hampshire] Hostnames

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Author: Tony Whitmore
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Hostnames
On 2013-01-29 15:43, Alex Dicks wrote:
> Dnsmasq <http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html> is a minimal
> DNS/DHCP server. It's easy to set it up so that you just have one
> /etc/hosts file on your server, and all other computers just use DHCP
> with no special configuration. BIND is much more flexible, but
> probably overkill for managing a small home network.


I used dnsmasq as part of IPCop years ago. It had some limitations
IIRC, but as you say may serve for a limited use case.

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