[ale] selective DNS server for DHCP clients?

Ron Frazier (ALE) atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com
Thu Feb 28 15:24:00 EST 2013



Mike Harrison <cluon at geeklabs.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Pete Hardie wrote:
>> Thanks - I'll take a closer look and see if I can wrap my head around
>it.
>> and to the list - I think that dnsmasq will do what I want, since it
>allows specification of a DNS server for the DHCP clients, and can be
>configured to not
>> be the DNS server for the host, leaving it to use the router and ISP
>servers.
>
>A friend of mine with various ages of children has chosen to
>incrementally
>make internet access harder and harder. The two eldest children have 
>developed some serious network hacking skills as a result. His devious 
>goal was less about restricting access to online materials and
>activities 
>and more about learning how things worked.
>
>His most recent step was physically unplugging at around 9-10pm
>(time for bed),,.  and his 14 year old boy discovered "pringles can" 
>antenna technologies as a result.
>
>The bad news, and why I know.. is he got enough signal to leach from my
>
>house.. where he got sniffed and monitored. I'm not exactly next door,
>but 
>I am line of sight..
>

No one leaches my wifi since it's encrypted.  They could sniff it, but they'd get gibberish.

Sincerely,

Ron


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