[ale] selective DNS server for DHCP clients?

[Pete Hardie]

Yeah, that's the plan, but I want to take it one stp at a time.  I've lived
through a few too many "change everything in one fell swoop" incidents that
turned into "Aggh! Which thing broke it?"


Pete Hardie
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Better Living Through Bitmaps


On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>wrote:

> On 3/6/2013 19:27, Pete Hardie wrote:
>
>> A followup, for those interested in the results
>>
>> I think that I have found a working configuration.  I currently have dhcpd
>> running, supplying a few fixed IPs for my DVRs, and pointing them at my
>> WIRNS server for replacement guide data, and I was able to set up another
>> MAC-specific stanza to point
>> my Nook to use my desktop as its DNS, which is handled by dnsmasq.  I set
>> up dnsmasq to map reddit.com to 127.0.0.1 and it appears to do what I
>> want
>> - fail to load that site.
>>
>> I could use dnsmasq to supply the DHCP, and may switch to that once I feel
>> that everything else is working totally to my satisfaction
>>
>> Thanks again to all for the suggestions and war stories about blocking
>> your
>> kids' access!
>>
>
> Switching to dnsmasq will make a lot of stuff easier for you in the end.
>  You can still map IP to MACs so DHCP assignments end up being static.  You
> can also send all of the optional DHCP assignments to different clients on
> a per client basis (using packet tagging) which means you can do things
> like auto-configure proxy services via the DHCP options headers.  Plus it's
> only one program to maintain instead of two. :)
>
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