Hi,
I've got a gateway server running dnsmasq for dhcp on my LAN and I've got a
couple of problems with the host names of the dhcp clients.
The first is a Belkin print server which picks up its ip address and passes thro
its hostname MFD8FDC7. This appears in dnsmasq.leases - so I should be able to
communicate with it now, right?
There must be something missing from my dnsmasq config because I see now that
any attempt to use the host names of dhcp clients from the gateway server fail
with " unknown host ...". I'm on debian stable if that makes any difference.
I've got 127.0.0.1 in my /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost isengard.localdomain isengard
192.168.0.2 isengard.localdomain
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
along with all that ipv6 stuff, which someone somewhere recommended at some
point but I don't recall the details now (should I ditch it?)
Plus this is the settings in dnsmasq.conf:
adam@isengard:~$ decomment.sh /etc/dnsmasq.conf
domain-needed
bogus-priv
filterwin2k
server=/localdomain/127.0.0.1
local=/localdomain/
expand-hosts
domain=localdomain
dhcp-range=192.168.0.3,192.168.0.254
dhcp-option=option:router,192.168.0.2
dhcp-option=option:mtu,1500
Any inspiration gratefully received.
