<p>When I do as you suggest, I get the message: not giving the name mike. To the dhcp lease of x.x.x.x because the name exists in /etc/hosts with address 10.10.10.1</p>
<p>As far as locking everything down by mac, the network is isolated and 'trusted'. I get a machine, I need to set it up and I get to keep it for a little while then I deliver it and don't see it again. I just want a convenient name to refer to it while its here and a predictable ip based on the hostname I assign when I install.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">> If i understand correctly, what you want to do is:<br>> <br>> "Give the machine claiming name 'mike' the 10.10.10.1 address"<br>> <br>> You can just add in /etc/hosts :<br>
> <br>> 10.10.10.1 mike<br>> <br>> and restart the service...<br>> <br>> have a look: <a href="http://bit.ly/9D2JzU">http://bit.ly/9D2JzU</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/a7DJ1e">http://bit.ly/a7DJ1e</a><br>
> <br>> Though i strongly suggest you to make dnsmasq give ip addresses based on<br>> macaddress (For security reasons...)<br>> <br>> <br>> 2010/10/13 Mark Goldman <<a href="mailto:bitshifter@gmail.com">bitshifter@gmail.com</a>><br>
> <br>>> New user here, I spent several hours googling and came up empty handed.<br>>><br>>> What I would like is for dnsmasq to hand out the ip address that is in<br>>> /etc/hosts for any host that claims that hostid. I would like to avoid<br>
>> having a dhcp-host=name line for each host that is in /etc/hosts in addition<br>>> to having the information in /etc/hosts.<br>>><br>>> If there is a better way to achieve this, I'm game for that too. I would<br>
>> like to have all this info localized.<br>>><br>>> -mdg<br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list<br>>> <a href="mailto:Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk">Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk</a><br>
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