[Dnsmasq-discuss] dhcp-host ignored

[Fabiano Sidler]

Hi folks!

I'm running on Debian 13 with default configuration plus the following files
created in /etc/dnsmasq.d:

,---[ dhcp-range ]
|
|  dhcp-range=192.168.100.200,192.168.100.254
|
`-----------------

,---[myhost.example.org]
|
|  dhcp-host=52:54:00:ff:bc:ed,myhost.example.org,192.168.100.10
|
`-----------------------

This should assign myhost the IP 192.168.100.10 over DHCP. But instead, an
address from the dhcp-range is assigned and in /var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases
the following entry is created:

     1786687876 52:54:00:ff:bc:ed 192.168.100.223 myhost 
ff:00:ff:bc:ed:00:01:00:01:32:11:39:09:52:54:00:e0:6f:4c

So the MAC address "seen" by Dnsmasq is the correct one. Also, when I copy
the file to the name with a .conf appended, dnsmasq -d complains

     dnsmasq: duplicate dhcp-host IP address 192.168.100.10 at line 1 of 
/etc/dnsmasq.d/myhost.example.org.conf

so I can be sure that the one without .conf extension is read.

What's the issue here?
Thanks for advice in advance!