[Dnsmasq-discuss] Assign IP range by hostname with wildcard

[Christian Zenker]

Hi.

First of all: I have less than one day of experience with DHCP, so please forgive me if my terminology is a bit off or I do some terrible beginners mistake.
I'm trying to set up DHCP for our small company. This far everything worked really smoothly (thanks to dnsmasq), but I'm struggling with some minor issue:

I want to separate the dhcp ranges from the workstations from any other machines. As the workstations have a hostname naming scheme like "foobar-1", "foobar-2", etc. I thought it would be nice to work with wildcards, like:

dhcp-host=set:baz,foobar-*
dhcp-range=tag:baz,192.168.1.1,192.168.1.42,infinite
dhcp-range=tag:!baz,192.168.1.43,192.168.1.254,12h

But this is not a valid syntax. The extensive way

dhcp-host=set:baz,foobar-1
dhcp-host=set:baz,foobar-2
# [...]

works, but is not really nice and hard to maintain. Is there any way to use some kind of wildcard to keep the configuration short?

Christian Zenker.