[Dnsmasq-discuss] Feature request for dhcp-hostfiles to behave like addn-hosts

[John Hanks]

I'd like to break my dhcp-hostsfile file into several smaller files to
make it easier to maintain and the addn-hosts is working really well
to do this for the hosts file so I'd like to submit a feature request
that dhcp-hostsfile have the same behavior of processing all the files
in a directory when pointed at a directory. This isn't really a
critical thing, I can always keep separate files and merge them in my
update process, but I am hoping that this would be a useful addition
for others as well and save the extra step. Currently my file is about
1400 entries and I expect that to increase by an order of magnitude
over the next year as we potentially run a hypervisor on each of those
hosts and spawn multiple VMs.

A tangential question, I've increased MAXLEASES to

#define MAXLEASES 16384

in config.h. Is there any danger in having this many leases and
increasing this even higher if necessary? I'm a few weeks away from
being able to test this at scale and appreciate any warnings or
feedback anyone might have now.

Would also like to add that dnsmasq is a great tool and I really
appreciate the work Simon and contributors do to make this available.

Thanks,

jbh