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

[james meyer]

On Monday 17 August 2009, Simon Kelley wrote:
> james meyer wrote:
> > On Monday 27 July 2009, richardvoigt at gmail.com wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:29 AM, james meyer<james.meyer at operamail.com> 
> > wrote:
> >>> 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.
> >> What version of dnsmasq are you using?
> >>
> > I have tried both 2.47 and 2.49.
> > 2.47 is my preference as it's on my router running the tomato firmware.
> > 2.49 is installed on my desktop for testing.
> > 
> > What appears to be happening is 
> > 1) dhcpcd is requesting the hostname from dnsmasq (can be seen in the 
network 
> > capture)
> > 2) dnsmasq does not respond with a hostname, unless dhcpcd sends a null 
> > hostname in the request.  This also can be seen in the network capture
> > 
> > I would like to  know the suggested hostname regardless of if the client 
> > already has a hostname.
> > 
> 
> James,
> 
> What's the current status of this? The behaviour you describe is not the 
> way it's supposed to work.
> 
> Simon.
> 

Simon,
I did not find a solution with dnsmasq, so I changed all my dhcpcd calls to 
send a null hostname.  This was probably a better short term solution, as I 
can't expect  my users to change thier dnsmasq configuration.


-james