[Dnsmasq-discuss] Making dnsmasq make OFFER faster than virtualbox NAT DHCP

[Simon Kelley]

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Actually, it's permitted to have more than once DHCP server, but the
client is entitled to wait for some time to hear from them all, and
then pick whichever one it prefers, so trying to implement server
priority by speed-of-reply is doomed to failure.


Cheers,

Simon.


On 23/01/17 01:54, wkitty42 at gmail.com wrote:
> On 01/22/2017 08:02 PM, Sebastian Tarach wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm trying to make *dnsmasq* work on my Debian Virtualbox guest
>> but I keep getting reply from my VBox host DHCP first.
> 
> there should only ever be one DHCP server running on any net
> segments... turn off or otherwise disable all the others and you
> should see the results you desire...
> 
> FWIW: rogue DHCP servers are the bane of sysdamins everywhere...
> 
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