[Dnsmasq-discuss] Static IP client question
Albert ARIBAUD
albert.aribaud at free.fr
Sun Aug 7 16:25:24 BST 2016
Bonjour,
Le Sun, 7 Aug 2016 09:32:47 +0100
Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> a écrit:
> On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 08:57:43PM -0400, Edward Crosby wrote:
> > I've implemented Dnsmasq on a Raspberry Pi 3 running Ubuntu Mate
> > 16.04 on my home LAN. I have configured it as a DHCP server also. I
> > have quite a few clients on my LAN, most of them are DHCP clients.
> > I have one PC, my personal PC, that has a static IP address. This
> > PC does not resolve host names of other host on my LAN, it doesn't
> > even resolve the hostname of the Dnsmasq DNS server, even though I
> > have the Dnsmasq server IP as my DNS server.
>
> I'm doing almost exactly the same as you.
>
> What I do is fix the IP address of my desktop machine by getting
> dnsmasq to always give it the same address. So leave your desktop
> with a dynamic IP in its configuration and have something like the
> following to your /etc/hosts file on the pi:-
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> #
> #
> # These have fixed IP for various reasons, so dnsmasq serves
> their IP from here
> #
> 192.168.1.1 vigor
> 192.168.1.2 pi.zbmc.eu raspberrypi pi
> 192.168.1.3 esprimo.zbmc.eu zbmc.eu
> 192.168.1.5 maxinexp
> 192.168.1.6 ben
> 192.168.1.40 mikrotik
> 192.168.1.60 fonera
>
> My desktop machine is esprimo.
Hi Chris and Edward,
I don't have many Windows machines around my dnsmasq managed,
statically attributed LAN, but at least one is used daily, and I just
ran a test on it, which makes me ask a question to Edward:
How did you (both) test that the machine does not resolve?
Here's why I'm asking:
I've tested the following with a Windows machine (let's call it romulus)
and my Linux machine (let's call it remus). From the command prompt on
romulus, I ran the following:
ping remus
=> romulus complains that it could not find host remus.
nslookup remus
=> This resolves immediately to remus' fixed IP address.
ping remus. (note the dot at the end!)
=> This works.
If I'd believed the first ping, I might have concluded that the
resolution did not work, while it actually does; the issue is with
how romulus handles domainless names.
Hence my question re: how exactly the issue was tested.
Amicalement,
--
Albert.
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