[Novalug] benefit of containers in SOHO LAN services
Jon LaBadie
novalugml@jgcomp.com
Sun Jul 12 03:06:58 EDT 2015
Way back when I has as many as 2 dozen hosts on my
home office LAN I settled on using static IP addresses
and running a small local nameserver, "dnsmasq". On
the host running dnsmasq I create a alternative ethernet
interface for one of its primary interfaces (eg. eth0:1),
assign it a second IP address and use that address
exclusively for the name service.
To the DNS clients, the service could be running on a
separate host, a full VM, or a lighter weight VM-like
container (eg. docker). In reality it is just another
service running on my mail and back-up server.
If I wanted to play with containers I suspect that DNS
would be a good vehicle to practice with. Aside from
the learning experience would there be any tangible
benefits from containerizing my nameserver?
Thanks, Jon
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Jon H. LaBadie novalugml@jgcomp.com
11226 South Shore Rd (703) 787-0688 (H)
Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C)
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