<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title></head><body><div>For the record: I changed the order back to list the host after the range, restarted dnsmasq and it worked this time. I don't know why this happened, sorry!</div><div><br></div><div>I now have this in the configuration file:</div><div><br></div><div># Uncomment this to enable the integrated DHCP server, you need</div><div># to supply the range of addresses available for lease and optionally</div><div># a lease time. If you have more than one network, you will need to</div><div># repeat this for each network on which you want to supply DHCP</div><div># service.</div><div>dhcp-range=192.168.2.50,192.168.2.150,12h</div><div><br></div><div># ...</div><div><br></div><div># Always allocate the host with Ethernet address 00:e0:4c:36:07:25</div><div># The IP address 192.168.2.4</div><div>dhcp-host=00:e0:4c:36:07:25,192.168.2.4</div><div><br></div><div>and I saw this in the logs</div><div><br></div><div>Apr 20 12:11:29 pizero systemd[1]: Stopped dnsmasq.service - dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server.</div><div>Apr 20 12:11:29 pizero systemd[1]: dnsmasq.service: Consumed 1.501s CPU time.</div><div>Apr 20 12:11:37 pizero systemd[1]: Starting dnsmasq.service - dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server...</div><div>Apr 20 12:11:37 pizero dnsmasq[11557]: started, version 2.90 cachesize 150</div><div>Apr 20 12:11:37 pizero dnsmasq[11557]: compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt DBus no-UBus i18n IDN2 DHCP DHCPv6 no-Lua TFTP conntrack ipset nftset auth cryptohash DNSSEC loop-detect inotify dumpfile</div><div>Apr 20 12:11:37 pizero dnsmasq-dhcp[11557]: DHCP, IP range 192.168.2.50 -- 192.168.2.150, lease time 12h</div><div>Apr 20 12:11:37 pizero dnsmasq[11557]: using only locally-known addresses for localnet</div><div>Apr 20 12:11:37 pizero dnsmasq[11557]: no servers found in /etc/resolv.conf, will retry</div><div>Apr 20 12:11:37 pizero dnsmasq[11557]: read /etc/hosts - 9 names</div><div>Apr 20 12:11:37 pizero systemd[1]: Started dnsmasq.service - dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server.<br></div><div>Apr 20 12:12:33 pizero dnsmasq-dhcp[11557]: DHCPREQUEST(eth0) 192.168.2.58 00:e0:4c:36:07:25</div><div>Apr 20 12:12:33 pizero dnsmasq-dhcp[11557]: DHCPNAK(eth0) 192.168.2.58 00:e0:4c:36:07:25 static lease available</div><div>Apr 20 12:12:33 pizero dnsmasq-dhcp[11557]: DHCPDISCOVER(eth0) 192.168.2.58 00:e0:4c:36:07:25</div><div>Apr 20 12:12:33 pizero dnsmasq-dhcp[11557]: DHCPOFFER(eth0) 192.168.2.4 00:e0:4c:36:07:25</div><div>Apr 20 12:12:33 pizero dnsmasq-dhcp[11557]: DHCPREQUEST(eth0) 192.168.2.4 00:e0:4c:36:07:25</div><div>Apr 20 12:12:33 pizero dnsmasq-dhcp[11557]: DHCPACK(eth0) 192.168.2.4 00:e0:4c:36:07:25 pizero1</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>