[Dnsmasq-discuss] dhcp.leases file format?

[William Trenker]

Hello,

I'm running dnsmasq v2.27 and have been googling around trying to find
a definition for the dhcp.leases file.

Most of the fields are self explanatory.  Here's an live example to
illustrate a couple of questions:

root at OpenWrt:~# cat /var/dhcp.leases
946689575 00:00:00:00:00:05 192.168.1.155 wdt 01:00:00:00:00:00:05
946689522 00:00:00:00:00:04 192.168.1.237 * 01:00:00:00:00:00:04
946689351 00:0f:b0:3a:b5:0b 192.168.1.208 colinux *
946689493 02:0f:b0:3a:b5:0b 192.168.1.199 * 01:02:0f:b0:3a:b5:0b

The second column is obviously the MAC address.  What is the last column?

What are the asterisks in entries 2 and 4?  The first two entries are
from the same machine, I simply changed to MAC address from
00:00:00:00:00:04 to 00:00:00:00:00:05 in order to observe the
results.  I see that the 2nd entry has an asterisk instead of my
computer's host name.

And the asterisk at the end of entry 3?  What is that?

Thanks very much,
Bill