[Dnsmasq-discuss] New user help, dhcp-hosts

[Mark Goldman]

When I do as you suggest, I get the message: not giving the name mike. To
the dhcp lease of x.x.x.x because the name exists in /etc/hosts with address
10.10.10.1

As far as locking everything down by mac, the network is isolated and
'trusted'.  I get a machine, I need to set it up and I get to keep it for a
little while then I deliver it and don't see it again.  I just want a
convenient name to refer to it while its here and a predictable ip based on
the hostname I assign when I install.

Thanks
> If i understand correctly, what you want to do is:
>
> "Give the machine claiming name 'mike' the 10.10.10.1 address"
>
> You can just add in /etc/hosts :
>
> 10.10.10.1 mike
>
> and restart the service...
>
> have a look: http://bit.ly/9D2JzU http://bit.ly/a7DJ1e
>
> Though i strongly suggest you to make dnsmasq give ip addresses based on
> macaddress (For security reasons...)
>
>
> 2010/10/13 Mark Goldman <bitshifter at gmail.com>
>
>> New user here, I spent several hours googling and came up empty handed.
>>
>> What I would like is for dnsmasq to hand out the ip address that is in
>> /etc/hosts for any host that claims that hostid. I would like to avoid
>> having a dhcp-host=name line for each host that is in /etc/hosts in
addition
>> to having the information in /etc/hosts.
>>
>> If there is a better way to achieve this, I'm game for that too. I would
>> like to have all this info localized.
>>
>> -mdg
>>
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