[Dnsmasq-discuss] reverse lookup dhcp clients

[Simon Kelley]

William Leemans wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This may be something I have failed to find, but I'm kinda stooped:
> 
> On any machine with my dnsmasq host in /etc/resolv.conf on my home
> network I can ping a dhcp client with its hostname, but not its fqdn.
> Is there something I am overlooking?
> 
> Thanks,
> Will.
> 
> 
> dnsmasq version 2.45 on Ubuntu 8.10 (yes, I know I need to upgrade)
> my dnsmasq config:
> expand-hosts
> domain=mydomain.local
> domain-needed
> bogus-priv
> local=/mydomain.local/
> 
> interface=eth0
> dhcp-range=lan,192.168.254.100,192.168.254.199, 255.255.255.0,24h
> 
> dhcp-option=net:lan,option:router,192.168.254.1
> dhcp-option=net:lan,option:domain-search,mydomain.local
> dhcp-option=net:lan,option:domain-name,mydomain.local
> dhcp-option=net:lan,option:dns-server,192.168.254.10,192.168.254.1
> 
> 
> 
It's likely that the problem is using ".local" Apple nabbed that one for
mDNS/rendezvous and if you have mDNS enabled you can't do DNS lookups
for *.local

HTH

Simon.