[Dnsmasq-discuss] dhcp-host=hostnameonly does not work

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

>On 5/19/22 07:46, Maulis Adam via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote:
>>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

On 19.05.22 13:46, Michael Smith wrote:
>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.

just FYI, I use /etc/ethers for this, as this is unix database for mapping 
ethernet numbers to hostnames.

dnsmasq uses this database on my home router 

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