Thx for your reply...<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">>nslookup(1) is buggy and not a good tool. I recommend that you become<br>
>familiar with host(1) and dig(1). All three are provided by BIND. The<br>
>ISC folks have threatened to drop nslookup.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Thanks for that tip. I'll study host and dig...<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">>You looked, and at the time, "xxx" was in the lease file? I bet it<br>
>wasn't.<br></blockquote><div><br>No - it was in the lease file - I'm sure of it. And I watched the dnsmasq log file as the addresses were handed out. And the addresses in the lease file matched the address I saw when running 'ifconfig' on the console.<br>
<br>In the course of debugging, I re-assigned the DHCP address over and over. (by running 'sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart' on the ) Could frequent re-assignment have caused some sort of problem ??<br><br><br>
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