[Dnsmasq-discuss] Newbie questions

[David Li]

Hi,

I am new to dnsmasq and I am still researching its capabilities.
Frankly I am not sure if dnsmasq can meet some of my requirements on
Centos 7.1:

1. Provide DNSSEC. I am sure about this capability. What I am not
sure is if the latest version 2.75 can be installed from Cento 7
repos. The stock version is 2.66 which I don't think it has DNSSEC.

2. Provide High Availability. If one fails the secondary or the slave
can take over. I am not sure about this yet.

3. Provide service discovery like DNS-SD. I am not sure about how it works.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

David

[Thiago Farina]

Post by David Li
Hi,
I am new to dnsmasq and I am still researching its capabilities.
Frankly I am not sure if dnsmasq can meet some of my requirements on
1. Provide DNSSEC. I am sure about this capability. What I am not
sure is if the latest version 2.75 can be installed from Cento 7
repos. The stock version is 2.66 which I don't think it has DNSSEC.
2. Provide High Availability. If one fails the secondary or the slave
can take over. I am not sure about this yet.
Have you looked at PowerDNS - https://www.powerdns.com/?

[Thiago Farina]

Hi Thiago,
No I haven't. I 'll look into it.
In the mean time, I have another question regarding compiling and
installing 2.75 on Centos 7.
1. Is there a 2.75 RPM package already created for Centos/RHEL 7? I
haven't found any yet so far.

I don't know. I'm not familiar with CentOS.

2. If I need to it on a second Centos 7 machine, is it enough to
compile it on the first Centos 7 machine and copy the binary "dnsmasq"
to the second machine:/usr/local/sbin?
I believe it should be possible if both machines are from the same

architecture,
say they are both x86_64 (amd64).