[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq.lease file + description of its contents

[ramakanth varala]

can you also please expalin what exactly each coloumn represents.



On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:56 PM, ramakanth varala
<ramakanth.varala at gmail.com> wrote:
> thx simon,
>
>
> # dnsmasq -v
> Dnsmasq version 2.40  Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Simon Kelley
> Compile time options no-IPv6 GNU-getopt no-ISC-leasefile no-DBus no-I18N TFTP
>
> This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> Dnsmasq is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2.
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Simon Kelley <simon at thekelleys.org.uk> wrote:
>> ramakanth varala wrote:
>>> iam running dnsmasq on my target board , my dnsmasq.conf has following
>>> configurations
>>>
>>> # cat /var/etc/dnsmasq.conf
>>> strict-order
>>> localise-queries
>>> bogus-priv
>>> domain-needed
>>> expand-hosts
>>> resolv-file=/var/etc/resolv.conf
>>> dhcp-leasefile=/var/etc/dnsmasq.leases
>>> dhcp-lease-max=253
>>> dhcp-authoritative
>>> domain=home
>>> dhcp-vendorclass=CLASS0,IP-STB
>>> dhcp-range=net:CLASS0,192.168.1.100,192.168.1.150,86400
>>> dhcp-range=Private_LAN,192.168.1.2,192.168.1.254,86400,provide_hostname
>>>
>>> Here last line of configuration file represents that, the lease
>>> 192.168.1.2 - 254 would be for 86400 seconds .
>>>
>>>
>>> After this Lease would expire and Lan Hosts need to renew there lease.
>>>
>>> But when i see the /var/etc/dnsmasq.lease file
>>>
>>> # cat /var/etc/dnsmasq.leases
>>> 87954 00:1d:7d:bf:93:19 192.168.1.2 new-user-1 * * * *
>>>
>>> the first coloumn is 87954.As per my understanding all hosts should
>>> have lease expiry as 86400. But why does it show more that 86400.
>>>
>>> Any configuration missing..?
>>>
>>> Your comments would highly appreciated.
>>>
>>
>> Depending on how dnsmasq is compiled, that field may hold the _time_ the
>> lease expires, in seconds since January 1st 1970. It's clearly not that,
>> since the number would be much bigger, but if your system clock is not
>> set, that might explain things. Could you post the results of running
>> the command
>>
>> dnsmasq -v
>>
>> which will tell us which time mode dnsmasq is in, and make things clearer.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Simon.
>>
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