[Dnsmasq-discuss] dhcp-fqdn bug

[0zl]

What I intended to do was:

     domain=mydomain.com
     local=/mydomain.com/

I wanted to have this be done in a single line so I simply did 
domain=mydomain,local which I thought was the equivalent of the above.

On 4/1/23 01:18, Simon Kelley wrote:
>
>
> On 30/03/2023 22:00, 0zl wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I believe this might be a bug in dnsmasq. When using the shorthand 
>> `domain=mydomain.com,local` and `dhcp-fqdn`, dnsmasq fails with:
>>
>> `there must be a default domain when --dhcp-fqdn is set`
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is intended behavior or not, but from what I 
>> could gather this shouldn't happen.
>>
>
> You're possibly a victim of dnsmasq's over-complex configuration syntax.
>
> The error is `there must be a default domain when --dhcp-fqdn is set` 
> which is true. By default domain it means a domain which doesn't apply 
> only to hosts with an address in a particular address range.
>
> The problem is that -domain=mydomain.com,local is being parsed by the 
> dnsmasq code as being a domain which only applies to hosts which have 
> an address in the same range as a network interface called "local". 
> That's not a default domain, hence the problem.
>
> I doubt that's what you intended your domain option to mean, but it's 
> not clear what you are trying to do here: the "local" keyword only 
> makes sense in a domain declaration which includes an address range.
>
> If you let us know what you are behaviour you want, we can tell you 
> how to configure dnsmasq to get it.
>
>
> cheers,
>
> Simon.
>
>
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