<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div aria-label="Compose body"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">I am building a system containing many virtual machines. Each virtual machine will have a unique hostname, and the hostname</p><p class="MsoNormal">will be included in the domain name. The system will live on its own subnet. The system could change over time (more machines</p><p class="MsoNormal">added to system)</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I need to replicate this system in many different locations and am looking for a way to simplify the management of IP addresses</p><p class="MsoNormal">within the subnet, and create a similar look and feel across all the installations.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I’ve heard very nice things about dnsmasq…thus am considering it.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I am wondering if the dnsmasq DHCP server functionality interacts with the dnsmasq DNS functionality so that IP addresses can</p><p class="MsoNormal">be based on Hostname contained in the DHCP parameter instead of MAC addresses (I don’t have control over mac addresses, nor do I want to). Basically when a dhcp request from a host hits the dhcp server, the server checks with dnsmasq dns first to see if that hostname is contained in file containing the</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">address=/myhost/<ipaddress></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">information. If so, it responds with the ip address specified in DNS. If not, it provides a new ip address.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Basically, I want to control dns resolution and ip assignment in a single place (at the dns/dhcp server) as opposed</p><p class="MsoNormal">to having N number of machines with /etc/host files.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance,<br> Walter</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div><div><br></div><style><!--
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