dnsmasq with a DBus interface.

[Simon Kelley <simon thekelleys org uk>]

I just made available a test version of dnsmasq, complete with a DBus 
interface for controlling the DNS servers. Feedback on this, especially 
if the DBus code and API design are sane, would be appreciated.

Dnsmasq is a caching DNS forwarder. It does IPv4 and IPv6 and supports 
forwarding queries for different domains to different DNS servers. In 
the NetworkManager context, I envisage it's use would be as a DNS server 
for the machine on which it runs. It would accept DNS queries to 
127.0.0.1 and forward them to whichever DNS servers are appropriate for 
the current network context, as determined by network manager.

Quick start:

1) Make dnsmasq by running "make" in the top level directory.

2) Invoke "src/dnsmasq -d --enable-dbus --no-resolv -i lo"

That will give a daemon running in the foreground (for testing) which is 
listening on the loopback interface and  awaiting configuration via the 
system DBus. The API on the DBus is documented in the file 
"DBus-interface" in the tarball.


At the same time I also released version 0.2 of diamond, a 
DBus-controlled DHCP client. This is now quite usable, and has had 
testing in a variety of network environments. This might be a viable 
alternative to dhcdbd in the NetworkManager world. Again, I'm interested 
in feedback: this package is at an early stage in its development, and 
pretty much everything is up for grabs.

URLs

http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq-test/dnsmasq-2.23test6.tar.gz
http://thekelleys.org.uk/diamond/diamond-0.2.tar.gz

Enjoy,


Simon.