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

[richardvoigt at gmail.com]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Santiago Zarate <santiago at zarate.net.ve>wrote:

> 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
>

This should just work, as Santiago says...


>
> and restart the service...
>


...and it shouldn't even require a restart.

NOTESWhen it receives a SIGHUP, *dnsmasq *clears its cache and then re-loads
 */etc/hosts* and */etc/ethers *and any file given by --dhcp-hostsfile,
--dhcp-optsfile or --addn-hosts. The dhcp lease change script is called for
all existing DHCP leases. If *--no-poll* is set SIGHUP also re-reads *
/etc/resolv.conf.* SIGHUP does NOT re-read the configuration file.


>
> 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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