[Dnsmasq-discuss] old tagging syntax no longer working with dnsmasq >= 2.52 ?

[Simon Kelley]

Simone wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  I don't know why but my new installation of dnsmasq(2.52-1ubuntu0.1)
> on ubuntu 10.04.1 is not working as expected: it does not applies TAG
> to KNOWN client =(. I tried also the new version 2.55-1 with the same
> result.
> 
> I have a second server ubuntu 8.04.4(dnsmasq 2.41-2ubuntu2.2) with a
> configuration *very* similar that works very well...
> 
> I read in the changelog file that the tagging syntax has changed but
> that the old style is still supported so I don't understand what could
> be wrong in my conf.


>     dhcp-range=192.168.96.150,192.168.96.160,255.255.255.0,8h

>     dhcp-host=00:08:12:2e:31:55,192.168.0.170,cl-demo,net:ns1_fat

The address in the dhcp-host doesn't fall into the network given in the
dhcp-range. The dhcp-host line is therefore ignored. I think all the
other changes can be traced to that difference.

HTH


Simon.