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An Interview with Simon Kelley, the author of dnsmasq
- exabrial 6y agoBest DNS server on the planet. My largest deployment was a ~700 client network with absolutely minimal system resources. Replication provided by simple Unix resources and file watchers.
- jcrawfordor 6y agodnsmasq is one of my favorite software packages. One of those rare things that seems to directly address a real-world problem, address it well, but have minimal added complexity. Extremely common on commercial appliances but also very easy to set up and manage yourself.
- smabie 6y agodnsmasq is so nice, you would have thought the OpenBSD made it. Except for GNU style long options, of course.
- mattst88 6y agodnsmasq is an incredible piece of software. I ended up giving it a try after struggling to set up ISC BIND and ISC DHCP to work in conjunction (e.g., to create reverse DNS entries when DHCP assigns an IP to a machine). dnsmasq was such a breath of fresh air. I thought about the time that I'd spent and how much time I didn't spend after giving dnsmasq a try and decided that now was as good a time as I could imagine to finally donate to a free software project, so I donated, I think £75 through the PayPal link on Simon's website. I was really surprised to receive an very nice thank you letter from Simon, as if he had anything to thank me for—quite the opposite in fact. If you're able, please donate to free software developers like Simon.