[Dnsmasq-discuss] client name via DHCP

Carlos Carvalho carlos at fisica.ufpr.br
Fri Feb 11 13:20:48 GMT 2011


Helmut Hullen (Hullen at t-online.de) wrote on 11 February 2011 11:23:
 >>>>>>> when I use the ISC DHCP, then I can see the name of the Windows
 >>>>>>> client in "/var/state/dhcp/dhcp.leases".
 >>>>>>>
 >>>>>>> With dnsmasq as DNS and DHCP server I haven't found this feature
 >>>>>>> - is it somewhere hidden?
[...]
 >I'd be pleased if/when "dnsmasq" tells the client's hostname at least in  
 >one of its log messages.

It does for me, with log-dhcp set:

Feb 11 08:36:56 dnsmasq-dhcp[897]: 2634092356 DHCPDISCOVER(eth0.114) ...
Feb 11 08:36:56 dnsmasq-dhcp[897]: 2634092356 DHCPOFFER(eth0.114) ...
Feb 11 08:36:56 dnsmasq-dhcp[897]: 2634092356 requested options: 1:netmask, 15:domain-name, 3:router, 6:dns-server,
...
Feb 11 08:36:56 dnsmasq-dhcp[897]: 2634092356 tags: ...
Feb 11 08:36:56 dnsmasq-dhcp[897]: 2634092356 next server: ...
Feb 11 08:36:56 dnsmasq-dhcp[897]: 2634092356 broadcast response
Feb 11 08:36:56 dnsmasq-dhcp[897]: 2634092356 sent size:  1 option: 53:message-type  02
Feb 11 08:36:56 dnsmasq-dhcp[897]: 2634092356 sent size:  4 option: 54:...
Feb 11 08:36:56 dnsmasq-dhcp[897]: 2634092356 sent size:  4 option: 51:...
...
Feb 11 08:36:59 dnsmasq-dhcp[897]: 2634092356 client provides name: XXX
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