<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Frederick C. Damen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fred@damen.org">fred@damen.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
if a period(.) is used as a separator between the mac address and the<br>
DNS host name in the dhcp-host config file<br>
<br>
dhcp-host=00:e0:61:06:1d:b3.jonathan, 192.168.0.64, 12h<br>
<br>
DHCP works (albeit no name assigned)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I suspect anything from the end of the MAC address until the next comma simply gets ignored. Might be useful to have a warning if there's any non-whitespace characters in there.</div>
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Oct 10 06:33:33 damen dnsmasq-dhcp[6705]: DHCPREQUEST(eth0) 192.168.0.64<br>
00:e0:61:06:1d:b3<br>
Oct 10 06:33:33 damen dnsmasq-dhcp[6705]: DHCPACK(eth0) 192.168.0.64<br>
00:e0:61:06:1d:b3<br>
<br>
<br>
but DNS lookup does not<br>
<br>
# dig @<a href="http://192.168.0.1" target="_blank">192.168.0.1</a> jonathan<br>
<br>
; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2-RedHat-9.7.1-2.P2.fc13 <<>> @<a href="http://192.168.0.1" target="_blank">192.168.0.1</a> jonathan<br>
; (1 server found)<br>
;; global options: +cmd<br>
;; Got answer:<br>
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 52205<br>
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0<br>
<br>
;; QUESTION SECTION:<br>
;jonathan. IN A<br>
<br>
;; Query time: 0 msec<br>
;; SERVER: 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1)<br>
;; WHEN: Fri Oct 15 22:13:16 2010<br>
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 26<br>
<br>
<br>
All with no mention of a syntax error in /var/log/messages or<br>
log-facility file.<br>
<br>
Changing the period(.) to a comma(,) fixes the problem.<br>
<br>
though you might want to know,<br>
<br>
Fred<br>
<br>
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