[Dnsmasq-discuss] reverse lookup dhcp clients

William Leemans willie at elaba.net
Mon Jun 7 18:06:22 BST 2010


Of course you were right!!! Thanks...

Will.

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On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Simon Kelley <simon at thekelleys.org.uk>wrote:

> William Leemans wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This may be something I have failed to find, but I'm kinda stooped:
> >
> > On any machine with my dnsmasq host in /etc/resolv.conf on my home
> > network I can ping a dhcp client with its hostname, but not its fqdn.
> > Is there something I am overlooking?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Will.
> >
> >
> > dnsmasq version 2.45 on Ubuntu 8.10 (yes, I know I need to upgrade)
> > my dnsmasq config:
> > expand-hosts
> > domain=mydomain.local
> > domain-needed
> > bogus-priv
> > local=/mydomain.local/
> >
> > interface=eth0
> > dhcp-range=lan,192.168.254.100,192.168.254.199, 255.255.255.0,24h
> >
> > dhcp-option=net:lan,option:router,192.168.254.1
> > dhcp-option=net:lan,option:domain-search,mydomain.local
> > dhcp-option=net:lan,option:domain-name,mydomain.local
> > dhcp-option=net:lan,option:dns-server,192.168.254.10,192.168.254.1
> >
> >
> >
> It's likely that the problem is using ".local" Apple nabbed that one for
> mDNS/rendezvous and if you have mDNS enabled you can't do DNS lookups
> for *.local
>
> HTH
>
> Simon.
>
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