[Dnsmasq-discuss] Re: ISC leasefile removal

[Simon Kelley]

Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> Simon Kelley <simon at ...> writes:
> 
>>Have you condidered using the dnsmasq built-in DHCP server instead of 
>>the ISC one? I took a look at your documentation, and the only thing I 
>>can see which would not work out of the box is enable/disable BOOTP. 
>>Dnsmasq will always honour BOOTP requests from hosts with 
>>fixed-addresses, it has to be enabled with a flag for dynamic address 
>>allocation. It would be trivial to add another flag to disable it 
>>completely.
> 
> 
> Since I am using the Fedora package for dnsmasq, where previously I used my self
> build bianries, I had to make this switch.
> 
> I can witness the DHCP part is working quite well, but I am not able to resolve
> names of clients acquiring an IP from the dhcp-range option.
> 
> It used to work flawlessly when leases was read from the ISC generated file.
> 
> For the record, I am using 2.33, with bost static and dynamic IPs served.
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance
> 

Check the contents of /var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases

You should see a line for each host with a DHCP lease, and the fourth 
thing on the line should be the Hostname.

Also, look in the log files, there should be clues there about what is 
going on.

Cheers,

Simon.

> Gianluca
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