[Dnsmasq-discuss] not giving name myhost to the DHCP lease of 192.168.1.171 because the name exists in /etc/hosts with address 127.0.0

[john doe]

On 2/23/24 21:12, Bernd Prager wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am getting this annoying warning in my log files: "not giving name
> myhost to the DHCP lease of 192.168.1.171 because the name exists in
> /etc/hosts with address 127.0.0" from the dnsmaqs-daemon.
>
> This is the box that actually runs the dhcp daemon for my network and
> this host has 2 network interfaces:
> enp2s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
>          inet 192.168.1.2  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255
>
> with a fixed IP address,
>
> and
>
> wlp1s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
>          inet 192.168.1.171  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255
>
> that I want to grab the IP address via DHCP.
>
>
> The /etc.hosts contains:
>
> 127.0.0.1       localhost myhost
>
> How do I configure my dnsmasq.conf to solve this?
>

Dnsmasq is a server.
You should look at the DHCP client if you want to get a lease from a
DHCP server for an interface.

To address the issue, you can simply remove the duplicate host from the
hosts file or make Dnsmasq ignore this file.


What do you need Dnsmasq for?

--
John Doe