[Dnsmasq-discuss] bug: dhcp range parsing bug

[Andrew White]

Thanks for the clarification and updating the man page too.  I'll update my
configuration generating scripts.

Thanks again

Andrew

On Thu 3 Mar 2016 21:26 Simon Kelley <simon at thekelleys.org.uk> wrote:

> On 02/03/16 18:14, Andrew White wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > version > 2.65 introduced a bug where this command gives "bad dhcp-range"
> >
> > ./src/dnsmasq -F dhcp-range=set:tag1,192.168.1.1,192.168.1.254,static
>
>
> This was always wrong, so complaining about it is correct. The "static"
> flag _replaces_ the second IP address, as a range is not required when
> only static addresses are allowed, so it should be
>
> ./src/dnsmasq -F dhcp-range=set:tag1,192.168.1.1,static
> >
> > due to how the parsing of options were changed.
> > adding the subnetmask appears to work around it.
> >
> > ./src/dnsmasq -F
> > dhcp-range=set:tag1,192.168.1.1,192.168.1.254,static,255.255.255.0
>
> That's accepted, but it shouldn't be and it's not parsed as anything
> like you're expecting, so that is a bug.
>
> I've just pushed a fix to this to git, also I fixed the BNF in the man
> page, which was at best misleading, and probably plain wrong.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon.
>
>
> >
> > This was not required in 2.65
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> >
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