[Dnsmasq-discuss] How to get name of DHCP'ed system?
Chris G
cl at isbd.net
Sat Jan 24 00:09:36 GMT 2009
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:52:08PM -0800, Paul Chambers wrote:
> Fedora RPMs have located dnsmasq.leases in /var/lib/dnsmasq/ in the
> past. Don't know if they still are, more recently I've been building
> from Simon's tarballs to help test the latest releases.
>
> As to needing to write a script, don't most boxes have 'locate'
> available? (apart from embedded devices)
>
Locate only works after the overnight update though, not much use
after you've just installed dnsmasq.
> -- Paul
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dnsmasq-discuss-bounces at lists.thekelleys.org.uk
> > [mailto:dnsmasq-discuss-bounces at lists.thekelleys.org.uk] On
> > Behalf Of richardvoigt at gmail.com
> > Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 9:55 AM
> > To: psmith at gnu.org
> > Cc: dnsmasq-discuss at lists.thekelleys.org.uk
> > Subject: Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] How to get name of DHCP'ed system?
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Paul Smith <psmith at gnu.org> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 16:29 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > >> Where is dhcp.leases? I've looked in the obvious places and can't
> > >> see it, a quick Google suggests it should be
> > >> /var/dhcp.leases but I haven't got that.
> > >
> > > The file is actually called "dnsmasq.leases" (at least on
> > > the systems I have) and it's in /var/lib/misc.
> >
> > Sorry about that. I use the scripted external database so I
> > don't have a leasefile at all, and didn't check before
> > providing the information.
> >
> > The man page mentions two possible paths:
> > /var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases
> > /var/db/dnsmasq.leases
> >
> > Of course the path can be changed with the dhcp-leasefile option.
> >
> > Simon, the man entry for dhcp-leasefile is awfully confusing.
> > Is that always a ISC dhcpd-compatible file, or only when old
> > behavior is triggered by the lack of dhcp-range options?
> >
> > >
> > >> It does seem that there's a need for a simple utility to get these
> > >> names though.
> > >
> > > You can write a little script to query the dnsmasq.leases file :-)
> > >
> > >
>
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