[Dnsmasq-discuss] use client identifier for DNS

[Simon Kelley]

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On 01/03/15 08:28, Stefan Priebe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i have some hosts not sending the hostname as dhcp option 12.
> Instead i can only set the client identifier option 61.
> 
> Is there a chance or way to use the client identifier for the
> client hostname in dnsmasq?
> 
> Stefan
> 

You can't tell dnsmasq to use client-ids directly as the name. Most
client-ids are binary, rather than valid human-readable names, so that
would probably end badly.

If you have a known set if clients, you can tell dnsmasq to give a
hostname to a client with a particular client-id:

dhcp-host=id:client_id,name_for_host

Would that help?


Cheers,

Simon.




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