[Dnsmasq-discuss] static ip leases from external DNS

[Simon Kelley]

On 05/08/13 17:48, jon public wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I have several networks, each one having a domain zone provided by an
> external DNS (bind) server. All machines get their ip address from dnsmasq
> (dhcp). This setup works great, but I have to do some extra work to manage
> to different databases ( bind DNS and DHCP static leases) in order to make
> sure that every machine gets the correct ip address.
>
> I rather not to change the dns servers.
>
> I wonder if it is possible for dnsmasq to run a dns query every time it
> gets a DHCP request and OFFER the ip address it got from DNS.

That would be difficult to do: the main problem is concurrency issues: 
an external DNS query can block, and the structure of dnsmasq can't cope 
with that.

Sorry.


Simon.

>
> Thanks for your help!!!!
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