[et-mgmt-tools] Do you use cobbler's support for dnsmasq?

Sandor W. Sklar ssklar at stanford.edu
Fri May 2 16:05:30 UTC 2008


On May 2, 2008, at 9:05 AM, Michael DeHaan wrote:

> Sandor W. Sklar wrote:
>>
>> On May 2, 2008, at 8:54 AM, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Still, more feedback welcome... as I'm curious as to how widely  
>>> this is being used (and also how
>>> high dnsmasq is scaling)
>>
>> Since you said more feedback is welcome, I'll state that we in fact  
>> do not use any of the DNS features of cobbler; we've already got a  
>> large-scale, robust DNS service and management system, so, vis-a- 
>> vis this thread, I just hope that whatever decision is made, it  
>> doesn't have too much impact on those of us not using Cobbler for  
>> DNS.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -s-
>
> It will not make any impact. Mainly I just needed feedback on  
> dnsmasq. I know quite a few people are using the ISC support.
>
> The idea with Cobbler is that if you /do/ want to get out of the  
> business of maintaining your DHCP/DNS/kickstart/system-definition  
> info in 3 places, cobbler will let you do it. And while it is  
> "batteries included", we don't require any of those to be used, nor  
> are they on by default.

Good to hear.  :-)  I figured as much, but just wanted to make sure.

Thanks!
	-s-




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