[Dnsmasq-discuss] dhcp-range - must ip address of server be outside that?
Simon Kelley
simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Mon Dec 28 09:25:34 GMT 2009
richardvoigt at gmail.com wrote:
> It doesn't appear to be part of the contract (e.g. man page) but from
> experience I can say that the behavior in every version of dnsmasq
> I've used is to reserve addresses mentioned in /etc/ethers or
> dhcp-host lines and not give them out to non-matching hosts.
That's correct. Dnsmasq also avoids giving out its own address (pace the
initial query) and addresses in class C space which end in .0 or .255
(to work around a windows bug)
Simon.
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