[Dnsmasq-discuss] question on tftp service

Carlos Carvalho carlos at fisica.ufpr.br
Mon Jan 29 13:39:28 GMT 2007


Simon Kelley (simon at thekelleys.org.uk) wrote on 29 January 2007 12:10:
 >Carlos Carvalho wrote:
 >> I tried the tftp service and got this in the log:
 >> 
 >> dnsmasq[26150]: DHCPDISCOVER(eth0.58) 00:11:2f:84:22:cc 
 >> dnsmasq[26150]: DHCPOFFER(eth0.58) 192.168.58.146 00:11:2f:84:22:cc 
 >> dnsmasq[26150]: DHCPREQUEST(eth0.58) 192.168.58.146 00:11:2f:84:22:cc 
 >> dnsmasq[26150]: Ignoring DHCP host name ankarana.fisica.ufpr.br because it has an illegal domain part
 >> ???
 >
 >As far as I can see, you will only get that message if the client sends
 >the FQDN in the DHCPREQUEST. My guess is that
 >DHCPOFFER is sending ankarana.fisica.ufpr.br in the hostname or FQDN
 >option and the client is echoing this back. There's not check that a
 >hostname matches the hosts-file, just that if it has a domain part, it
 >must match the domain given in the dnsmasq "domain=" config. You can
 >safely ignore this, but I might try and fix the problem for the next
 >release. BTW do you have a domain set in the dnsmasq config, and if so
 >what is it?

There's no domain= setting. There was but I removed it to save space
in the packet. It's sent as dhcp-option only to the machines that
support a larger packet size. This one might support it but it's a
terminal and doesn't need it so it's not sent (if I understand how
dnsmasq works).



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