[Dnsmasq-discuss] How to get name of DHCP'ed system?

[Paul Chambers]

Fedora RPMs have located dnsmasq.leases in /var/lib/dnsmasq/ in the
past. Don't know if they still are, more recently I've been building
from Simon's tarballs to help test the latest releases.

As to needing to write a script, don't most boxes have 'locate'
available? (apart from embedded devices)

-- Paul

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:dnsmasq-discuss-bounces at lists.thekelleys.org.uk] On 
> Behalf Of richardvoigt at gmail.com
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 9:55 AM
> To: psmith at gnu.org
> Cc: dnsmasq-discuss at lists.thekelleys.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] How to get name of DHCP'ed system?
> 
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Paul Smith <psmith at gnu.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 16:29 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> >> Where is dhcp.leases?  I've looked in the obvious places and can't 
> >> see it, a quick Google suggests it should be 
> >> /var/dhcp.leases but I haven't got that.
> >
> > The file is actually called "dnsmasq.leases" (at least on 
> > the systems I have) and it's in /var/lib/misc.
> 
> Sorry about that.  I use the scripted external database so I 
> don't have a leasefile at all, and didn't check before 
> providing the information.
> 
> The man page mentions two possible paths:
> /var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases
> /var/db/dnsmasq.leases
> 
> Of course the path can be changed with the dhcp-leasefile option.
> 
> Simon, the man entry for dhcp-leasefile is awfully confusing. 
>  Is that always a ISC dhcpd-compatible file, or only when old 
> behavior is triggered by the lack of dhcp-range options?
> 
> >
> >> It does seem that there's a need for a simple utility to get these 
> >> names though.
> >
> > You can write a little script to query the dnsmasq.leases file :-)
> >
> >