[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq & dynamic DHCP updates?

[Michael DeHaan]

Question...

I recently added dnsmasq support to cobbler 
(http://cobbler.et.redhat.com), and I'm wanting a way to update both DNS 
and DHCP entries programatically without restarting dnsmasq, if 
possible.   (Editing a config file or two and signalling is totally 
fine).   In general, what I want is something analogous to the dynamic 
modification abilities of ISC omshell, without the utter brokenness that 
is omshell :)

I see the live DNS update portions are doable from reading 
/usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-2.38/DBus-interface, though is something like 
this doable for DHCP entries?   For instance, if I have a datacenter 
with a new computer off the truck (MAC AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF, I want to be 
able to assign that to hostname "blippy", though it looks like I first 
need to know it's IP to do that... thus I need to modify the DHCP config 
to assign this by a dhcp-host entry.   I'm not sure how to go about 
doing that dynamically now.

Basically right now I'm just templating out dnsmasq.conf and doing a 
SIGHUP (/sbin/service dnsmasq reload), which per the manpage reloads 
resolve.conf stuff, but not the dhcp-host entries in dnsmasq.conf ...  
Or am I wrong about that?

Regardless, dnsmasq setup was quite easy, and I'm likely to use it much 
more in the future.  Neat stuff.

Thanks,

Michael DeHaan