[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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