[Dnsmasq-discuss] Linksys routers, bridges, network appliances: host names

[Chris G]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 03:15:08PM -0500, John R. Graham wrote:
> Most of these little Linksys devices are capable of getting an IP address via DHCP from dnsmasq but none of them (that I have tried) seem capable of delivering their host name to dnsmasq as all of my Linux and Windows boxen do.  Is this a known limitation of these little boxes, or do I need to do something I haven't done in the dnsmasq.conf file?  I can pull a Wireshark trace of the DHCP transaction if that would be helpful.
> 
It's quite a problem with various small devices, I have a Western
Digital NAS which doesn't provide itself with a name when it gets its IP
from dnsmasq.

I have the following at the end of my dnsmasq.conf to deal with this:-

    dhcp-host=00:90:a9:70:06:ff,backup

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Chris Green