[H-GEN] Nicest way to maintain mac-IP-DNS mappings on local network?

[Snowy Angelique Maslov]

On 10/10/2012 10:26 AM, Russell Stuart wrote:
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> On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 00:18 +0100, Benjamin Fowler wrote:
>> I don't suppose there are any gotchas or caveats that I need to be
>> aware of, with respect to running avahi to advertise services to Macs
>> over the same network? I'm aware that zeroconf runs on different
>> ports, but am currently blissfully unaware of any potential pitfalls
>> of doing regular DDNS and zeroconf on the same network...
> I've managed to avoid thinking about avahi so far.  It is there and runs
> because so many packages depend on it, but I've never actually found a
> use for it.
>
> Dan's suggestion of using dnsmasq is a pretty good one.  It's downsides
> are that it doesn't remember any state between restarts and
> configuration is mostly done on the command line which can get
> cumbersome for complex setups.  But for simple setups it's drop dead
> easy to use, and just works.  I use it in small offices, and it's never
> given me a problem.
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I'd have to chime in on dnsmasq and give it a thumbs up as well. I've 
used it previously for this sort of thing and it was very good for 
simple setups.    Once you start getting into more complicated (multiple 
boot paths/files etc) however you then tend to have to go back to 
dhcpd/bind.

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Snowy Angelique Maslov<snowy at snowy.org>