[Dnsmasq-discuss] dhcp-host=hostnameonly does not work
Michael Smith
michael at kmaclub.com
Thu May 19 20:46:36 UTC 2022
On 5/19/22 07:46, Maulis Adam via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I like to configure my dhcp server with as little redundacy as
> possible. But it looks like the IP address needs to be written both of
> /etc/hosts and /etc/dnsmasq.conf
>
> The client machines are in the /etc/hosts for example:
>
> 192.168.64.200 cntemplate.hpc
>
> The non-default dnsmasq config options are:
>
> no-resolv
> server=192.168.5.251
> expand-hosts
> domain=hpc
>
> Case 1:
> dhcp-range=192.168.64.0,static
> dhcp-host=cntemplate
>
> Does not work, syslog said:
> May 19 15:53:47 gw00 dnsmasq-dhcp[4912]: DHCPDISCOVER(vlan164)
> 02:00:00:00:00:65 no address available
Maybe I am not fully understanding your use case. Here is how I have
mine configured:
hosts:
192.168.101.10 hostname
dnsmasq.conf
dhcp-host=0c:9d:92:10:a1:8c,hostname
This ties the DHCP request (MAC) to the hostname and then the hostname
to the ip in the hosts file.
Michael
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