[Dnsmasq-discuss] Static IP client question
Chris Green
cl at isbd.net
Sun Aug 7 09:32:47 BST 2016
On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 08:57:43PM -0400, Edward Crosby wrote:
> I've implemented Dnsmasq on a Raspberry Pi 3 running Ubuntu Mate 16.04
> on my home LAN. I have configured it as a DHCP server also. I have
> quite a few clients on my LAN, most of them are DHCP clients. I have
> one PC, my personal PC, that has a static IP address. This PC does not
> resolve host names of other host on my LAN, it doesn't even resolve the
> hostname of the Dnsmasq DNS server, even though I have the Dnsmasq
> server IP as my DNS server.
I'm doing almost exactly the same as you.
What I do is fix the IP address of my desktop machine by getting
dnsmasq to always give it the same address. So leave your desktop
with a dynamic IP in its configuration and have something like the
following to your /etc/hosts file on the pi:-
127.0.0.1 localhost
#
#
# These have fixed IP for various reasons, so dnsmasq serves their IP
from here
#
192.168.1.1 vigor
192.168.1.2 pi.zbmc.eu raspberrypi pi
192.168.1.3 esprimo.zbmc.eu zbmc.eu
192.168.1.5 maxinexp
192.168.1.6 ben
192.168.1.40 mikrotik
192.168.1.60 fonera
My desktop machine is esprimo.
--
Chris Green
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