[Dnsmasq-discuss] Dnsmasq is not sending the hostname to the client.

[james meyer]

On Monday 27 July 2009, richardvoigt at gmail.com wrote:
> > Simon,
> > I tried adding the dhcp-ignore-names  option as you suggested, but it 
didn't
> > make a difference.
> 
> I don't think that dhcp-ignore-names matches against a MAC address as
> you've tried to do, it uses a "network-id" instead (although the
> dhcp-host line can map between them).  Have you tried ignoring all
> names first to see if it has the desired effect?  Then you can
> restrict it if needed after you know whether it works.
> 
Tried adding the line dhcp-ignore-names without any network-id's.
It did start ignoring names for other hosts, but didn't help me out in this 
situation.