[Dnsmasq-discuss] How to disable Reverse-DNS to lookup for hostnames in DHCP Range

[Simon Kelley]

Michael Rack wrote:
> Hi list!
> 
> How to tell DNSMASQ to forward all querys to the upstrem-dns-server?
> 
> My DNSMASQ provides official IP-Addresses to my network via DHCP. While 
> a machine requests an ip-address, it authenticates against its own 
> hostname e.g. pc-michael.
> 
> A reverse DNS query inside of the network for a dynamic assigned 
> ip-address, results in the hostname the machine provides.
> 
> But the real hostname is not the machines-hostname, but rather thats the 
> upstream-dns-server provides.
> 

You could try using

--dhcp-ignore-names

which will tell dnsmasq not to use the name supplied by the DHCP client. 
This may do more than you want, but it's the closest there is to a 
feature which does what you are asking for,

Cheers,

Simon.

> Thank you.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Michael Rack
> 
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