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1.1     ! misho       1: 
        !             2: This is the README for the DNSmasq webmin module.
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        !             4: Problems:
        !             5: 
        !             6: 1) There's only basic error checking - if you enter some bad
        !             7: addresses or names, they will go straight into the config file
        !             8: although we do check for things like IP addresses being of
        !             9: the correct form (no letters, 4 groups of up to 3 digits
        !            10: separated by dots etc). One thing that ISN'T CHECKED FOR is
        !            11: that IP dotted quads are all numbers < 256. Another is that
        !            12: netmasks are logical (you could enter a netmask of 255.0.255.0 
        !            13: for example). Essentially, if it'll pass the config file
        !            14: regex scanner (and the above examples will), it won't be 
        !            15: flagged as "bad" even if it is a big no-no for dnsmasq itself. 
        !            16: 
        !            17: 2) Code is ugly and a kludge - I ain't a programmer! There are probably 
        !            18: a lot of things that could be done to tidy up the code - eg, 
        !            19: it probably wouldn't hurt to move some common stuff into the lib file.
        !            20: 
        !            21: 3) I've used the %text hash and written an english lang file, but
        !            22: I am mono-lingual so no other language support as yet.
        !            23: 
        !            24: 4) for reasons unknown to me, the icon does not appear properly
        !            25: on the servers page of webmin (at least it doesn't for me!)
        !            26: 
        !            27: 5) icons have been shamelessly stolen from the ipfilter module,
        !            28: specifically the up and down arrows.
        !            29: 
        !            30: 6) if you delete an item, the config file will contain
        !            31: an otherwise empty, but commented line. This means that if
        !            32: you add some new stuff, then delete it, the config file
        !            33: will have a number of lines at the end that are just comments.
        !            34: Therefore, the config file could possibly grow quite large.
        !            35: 
        !            36: 7) NO INCLUDE FILES!
        !            37: if you use an include file, it'll be flagged as an error. 
        !            38: OK if the include file line is commented out though.
        !            39: 
        !            40: 8) deprecated lines not supported (eg user and group) - they
        !            41: may produce an error! (user and group don't, but you can't change
        !            42: them)
        !            43: 
        !            44: IOW, it works, it's just not very elegant and not very robust.
        !            45: 
        !            46: Hope you find it useful though - I do, as I prevents me having to ever
        !            47: wade through the config file and man pages again.
        !            48: 
        !            49: If you modify it, or add a language file, and you have a spare moment,
        !            50: please e-mail me - I won't be upset at all if you fix my poor coding!
        !            51: (rather the opposite - I'd be pleased someone found it usefull)
        !            52: 
        !            53: Cheers,
        !            54:        Neil Fisher <neil@magnecor.com.au>