Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Joshua ChaitinPollak <jpollak@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] NSLU2 as a DNS server
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:20:29
Message-Id: 5F3BB63C-C416-44A9-A4DB-FD6B4BD71182@kivasystems.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-embedded] NSLU2 as a DNS server by wireless
1 Have you considered running dnsmasq? It works very well for us and
2 uses /etc/hosts as its data store.
3
4 -Josh
5
6 On Oct 9, 2006, at 11:38 AM, wireless wrote:
7
8 > Hello,
9 >
10 > It looks to me as though the NSLU2 (32 meg of ram) is short on
11 > ram to act as a DNS primary/secondary server on a small single
12 > static IP network.
13 >
14 > 1. Is there anyone that has successfully put more than 32 M of
15 > ram on a NSLU2 device? Anyone know where I can purchase one
16 > with at least 128 if not 256M ram?
17 >
18 > http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/FattenYourSlug
19 >
20 >
21 > 2. Would there be any problem installing DJBDNS on this this
22 > device? Would any of the other necessary software for a DNS
23 > primary, be a problem?
24 >
25 > 3. Any other c library issues in running one of these computers
26 > as a dns server?
27 >
28 > 4. I found this link:
29 > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Linksys_NSLU2
30 >
31 > any other useful links for low_cost gentoo(embedded-gentoo)
32 > computers that have sufficient resources to be a dns server
33 > for a small network, are of interest to me.
34 >
35 > curiously,
36 >
37 > James
38 >
39 >
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