[Dnsmasq-discuss] dhcp-host option

[Matt Hull]

i am going to guess.....

you have ip v6 there, do you need it?

also, is the host name set in /etc/conf.d/hostname ?

matt

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Richard Bailey wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have dnsmasq running and it's running great. When I had my client machine
> as Windows XP the dhcp-host option worked and gave the ip for the host I'd
> defined in the /etc/hosts file.
>
> Now my client is a Ubuntu 6.06 machine and it has the same hostname, but it
> doesn't get the ip I've assigned. What's different about how Linux does a
> DHCP request that causes this and how can I fix it so that it works?
>
> Note the hostname command in Ubuntu gives the proper hostname but the hostname
> -f command returns localhost. I tried to adjust this but some X and other
> networking stuff stopped working.
>
> The contents of the hosts file on my Ubuntu client are:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost bailey
>
> # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
> ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> fe00::0 ip6-localnet
> ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
> ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
> ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
> 127.0.1.1 bailey
>
>
> - Richard
>