[Dnsmasq-discuss] Linksys routers, bridges, network appliances: host names

John R. Graham john_r_graham at mindspring.com
Fri Nov 19 12:22:55 GMT 2010


Chris,

Thanks.  Yes, I already use the "dhcp-host=" option on various of these devices.  I was inquiring about a more generic solution.

- John


-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris G <cl at isbd.net>
>Sent: Nov 19, 2010 4:35 AM
>To: dnsmasq-discuss at lists.thekelleys.org.uk
>Subject: Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Linksys routers, bridges,	network appliances: host names
>
>On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 03:15:08PM -0500, John R. Graham wrote:
>> Most of these little Linksys devices are capable of getting an IP address via DHCP from dnsmasq but none of them (that I have tried) seem capable of delivering their host name to dnsmasq as all of my Linux and Windows boxen do.  Is this a known limitation of these little boxes, or do I need to do something I haven't done in the dnsmasq.conf file?  I can pull a Wireshark trace of the DHCP transaction if that would be helpful.
>> 
>It's quite a problem with various small devices, I have a Western
>Digital NAS which doesn't provide itself with a name when it gets its IP
>from dnsmasq.
>
>I have the following at the end of my dnsmasq.conf to deal with this:-
>
>    dhcp-host=00:90:a9:70:06:ff,backup
>
>-- 
>Chris Green
>
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