[Dnsmasq-discuss] Does dnsmasq support cname within same domain?

[hamish at moffatt.email]

On 3/3/22 15:07, Frank Liu wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 5:46 PM <hamish at moffatt.email> wrote:
>
>     I have:
>
>     dhcp-host=<mac>,192.168.42.18,[::0:18],somehostname
>
>     cname=somealias.mydomain,somehostname
>
>
>     This is working fine. I have version 2.80 (on OpenWRT 19.07).
>
>     I see one difference to yours is that the target of the cname is
>     only a hostname and not the full domain. Does it work for you if
>     you make that change?
>
>
> dhcp-host doesn't work for me. Geoff Back earlier in the thread also 
> mentioned dhcp-host not working for him either.
>
> I don't think target full or short name matters. I always use full 
> domain names in target, as mentioned earlier in this thread, but I 
> just tried short hostname only, but it didn't make a difference.


Ah well I also have

addn-hosts=/tmp/hosts

with /tmp/hosts containing a hosts file with:

192.168.42.18 somehostname.mydomain


This was all set up by OpenWRT. Maybe that's why it works for me but not 
you.


Hamish
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