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| This is the README for the Dnsmasq webmin module. |
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| Problems: |
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| 1) There's only basic error checking - if you enter some bad |
| addresses or names, they will go straight into the config file |
| although we do check for things like IP addresses being of |
| the correct form (no letters, 4 groups of up to 3 digits |
| separated by dots etc). One thing that ISN'T CHECKED FOR is |
| that IP dotted quads are all numbers < 256. Another is that |
| netmasks are logical (you could enter a netmask of 255.0.255.0 |
| for example). Essentially, if it'll pass the config file |
| regex scanner (and the above examples will), it won't be |
| flagged as "bad" even if it is a big no-no for dnsmasq itself. |
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| 2) Code is ugly and a kludge - I ain't a programmer! There are probably |
| a lot of things that could be done to tidy up the code - eg, |
| it probably wouldn't hurt to move some common stuff into the lib file. |
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| 3) I've used the %text hash and written an english lang file, but |
| I am mono-lingual so no other language support as yet. |
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| 4) for reasons unknown to me, the icon does not appear properly |
| on the servers page of webmin (at least it doesn't for me!) |
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| 5) icons have been shamelessly stolen from the ipfilter module, |
| specifically the up and down arrows. |
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| 6) if you delete an item, the config file will contain |
| an otherwise empty, but commented line. This means that if |
| you add some new stuff, then delete it, the config file |
| will have a number of lines at the end that are just comments. |
| Therefore, the config file could possibly grow quite large. |
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| 7) NO INCLUDE FILES! |
| if you use an include file, it'll be flagged as an error. |
| OK if the include file line is commented out though. |
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| 8) deprecated lines not supported (eg user and group) - they |
| may produce an error! (user and group don't, but you can't change |
| them) |
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| IOW, it works, it's just not very elegant and not very robust. |
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| Hope you find it useful though - I do, as I prevents me having to ever |
| wade through the config file and man pages again. |
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| If you modify it, or add a language file, and you have a spare moment, |
| please e-mail me - I won't be upset at all if you fix my poor coding! |
| (rather the opposite - I'd be pleased someone found it useful) |
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| Cheers, |
| Neil Fisher <neil@magnecor.com.au> |