[Dnsmasq-discuss] First question(s)

[Geert Stappers]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 03:47:40PM +0000, Ken Gillett via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote:
> Only just discovered dnsmasq and planning to use it on my LAN, but
> have a couple of initial questions I hope can be answered here:-
>
> I want to allocate all IP addresses from specified range, but provide
> DNS names for some hosts identified by hardware/MAC address.
> I cannot see how to set this up.
>
> I can set up the range of DHCP addresses and I can set up a list of
> ’static’ addresses for certain specified (by MAC) hosts, but as
> far as I can see the latter has to also specify the IP address which I
> don’t want to do. I really want all addresses to be allocated from
> the DHCP range, but some of those to be linked to a DNS name. I want
> to avoid having to specify individual IP addresses for those that I
> want to name.


Say the LAN network is 192.168.17.0/24

Put the "static hosts" in one half
and assign the other half to the DHCP range.



> Seems simple but cannot figure how to set that up so would appreciate
> any pointers as to how I can do that.



Groeten
Geert Stappers
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