[Dnsmasq-discuss] Release candidate dnsmasq-2.47rc1

Carlos Carvalho carlos at fisica.ufpr.br
Tue Jan 27 23:33:07 GMT 2009


Simon Kelley (simon at thekelleys.org.uk) wrote on 27 January 2009 22:03:
 >             Don't dynamically allocate DHCP addresses which may break
 >             Windows.  Addresses which end in .255 or .0 are broken in
 >             Windows even when using supernetting.
 >             --dhcp-range=192.168.0.1,192.168.1.254,255,255,254.0 means
 >             192.168.0.255 is a valid IP address, but not for Windows.
 >             See Microsoft KB281579. We therefore no longer allocate
 >             these addresses to avoid hard-to-diagnose problems.

Which in turn may produce hard-to-understand no-free-leases
problems... Please make it an option.



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