[Dnsmasq-discuss] How to announce inactive DHCP bindings via DNS

[Toerless Eckert]

Thanks for the explanation! Hadn't thought about that and
don't have that requirements. Would certainl be nice if there
was a flag in the dhcp-host entry "announce-if-not-leased",

Cheers
    Teorless

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 09:50:13PM +0100, Simon Kelley wrote:
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> Defining the name<->address mapping in /etc/hosts and the
> MAC<->address or MAC<->name mapping in the dnsmasq config file or
> /etc/ethers is the only way  to do it.
> 
> The behaviour of dhcp-host is because a name can have more than on
> dhcp-host entry with addresses on different subnets, and the one in
> use is determined by which subnet it currently has a DHCP lease on.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Simon.
> 
> On 10/04/15 14:49, Toerless Eckert wrote:
> > OpenWRT usability related:
> > 
> > I have a bunch of system for whom i configure static leases with
> > name/mac/ip. Alas, those names do not show up in DNS when the
> > system is not present. I know i can make the hosts show up in DNS
> > by also defining them in the hosts file used by dnsmasq, but then i
> > need to enter every system twice: once into the static DHCP entries
> > and once into the hosts entries.
> > 
> > So, any way to configure dnsmasq so that it will also put static, 
> > but inactive DHCP leases into DNS ?
> > 
> > Thanks! Toerless
> > 
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