[Dnsmasq-discuss] Windows ipv6 hostname

[Markus Hartung]

Hello,

On 26 December 2016 10:29:26 GMT+01:00, "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Friday 23 December 2016 10:39:20 Markus Hartung wrote:
>> Is there a way to flush the lease database in dnsmasq? I have tried
>> removing the line in /var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases and restart dnsmasq
>> but my laptop still gets the same IP-address. Or is it that dnsmasq
>> uses the mac-address to generate same IP-address every time?
>
>Removing lease database file when dnsmasq is not running should be 
>enough.
>
>But dhcp client can try to "renew" already assigned IP address and dhcp
>
>client (dnsmasq) can extend this lease if nobody is using requested ip 
>address.
>
>So you should remove both *client* and *server* databases to prevent 
>such situation.
>
>I think it is possible to configure dnsmasq to assign only configured 
>ipv4 address for mac address.
>
>For dhcpv6 I have own dnsmasq patches which assign ipv6 address bases
>on 
>mac address...

That could be interesting with such patch. Is there any reason it haven't been accepted? 

What I need is just a way for a given mac-address dnsmasq should be informed of the hostname.

BR,
Markus
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