[Dnsmasq-discuss] dhcp-host ignored

[john doe]

On 8/14/26 7:52 AM, Fabiano Sidler wrote:
> 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
> 

In this case, all addresses to be dished out by the DHCP server should 
be included in the dhcp-range option.

-- 
John Doe