[Dnsmasq-discuss] Second question

Ken Gillett kengroups at icloud.com
Tue Mar 16 19:05:25 UTC 2021


Completely disregard this second question. I’ve been staring at dhcp this and dhcp that for so long I’ve become word blind and simply not seeing that it’s DHCP-optsfile and just relates to DHCP options rather than dnsmasq options.

Time to take a break.

My apologies.


Ken  G i l l e t t

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> On 16 Mar 2021, at 16:16, Ken Gillett via Dnsmasq-discuss <dnsmasq-discuss at lists.thekelleys.org.uk <mailto:dnsmasq-discuss at lists.thekelleys.org.uk>> wrote:
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> I think I’ve figured this out.
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> SIGHUP causes dnsmasq to re-read the ‘opts’ files, but it does NOT re-read any ‘conf’ files.
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> So a significant and possibly very useful difference.
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> Any other differences anyone knows?
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> Ken  G i l l e t t
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>> On 16 Mar 2021, at 15:39, Ken Gillett via Dnsmasq-discuss <dnsmasq-discuss at lists.thekelleys.org.uk <mailto:dnsmasq-discuss at lists.thekelleys.org.uk>> wrote:
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>> --dhcp-optsfile/dir and/or --conf-file/dir point to external files/dirs. My question then is:-
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>> What’s the difference between these ‘opts’ and ‘conf’ files?
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>> As far as I understand, they would both contain dnsmasq configuration options (without the --) so is there a difference, or are they both just different ways of specifying external configuration files of options?
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