[Dnsmasq-discuss] short names not being returned?

[Carlos Carvalho]

digitek (digitek at charter.net) wrote on 16 December 2007 09:21:
 >richardvoigt at gmail.com said the following on 12/16/2007 08:51 AM:
 >> On Dec 16, 2007 12:01 PM, digitek <digitek at charter.net> wrote:
 >>> Hello.
 >>> I'm running dnsmasq v2.38.  Short names for machines on my
 >> 
 >> Any reason you're using an old version?
 >
 >Just haven't updated.  I just pulled down 2.40 from rpmforge and updated now.

The latest version also has this problem.

 >> Is it not answering queries for "bst.localnet"?
 >
 >Hmm.. I guess it works if the machine has acquired a dhcp lease.

No, at least not if you only use static configs and don't have a lease file.

 >I was under the impression it would resolve whatever was in dnsmasq.conf
 >regardless if the machine was online or not.

It should but doesn't.

 >Sorry all, guess it's just pebkac on my part.

Simon knows about it, hopefully he'll correct this :-) I'm also
waiting for it.