[Dnsmasq-discuss] Using Machine Name to Allocate IP Address Rather than MAC Address

[Carlos Carvalho]

Eldon Ziegler (eldonz at atlanticdb.com) wrote on 11 January 2007 14:06:
 >The man page contains the statement, "--dhcp-host=lap,192.168.0.199
 >tells dnsmasq to always allocate the machine lap the ip address
 >192.168.0.199." Where on the target machine do I set the "lap" or
 >whatever to use this feature?

It depends on the system that runs in the machine.

I don't think this is a good idea because there may be collisions. I
think the assignment of leases should be centralized, that's the
purpose of dhcp after all.