I'm experimenting with dnsmasq to build a very simple DNS/DHCP server. I'm going to employ this server on a FritzBox DSL modem/router and some other small systems as well.
Currently there are two things that do not yet work as I want. First, it would be nice if I could specify the complete configuration in a single file. This makes maintenance and distribution much easier. Currently, I can specify everything in the dnsmasq.conf file except for the DNS host names. These seem to require an external file formatted as hosts(5). Is that correct or am I overlooking some trivial setting? Second, All known hosts in the network are DHCP clients with fixed adresses. These are specified in the dhcp portion of the config file. E.g.: dhcp-host=00:50:56:00:00:01,mirage.squirrel.nl,192.168.1.127,infinite However, it seems that the host name and address must also be specified in the hosts file for DNS to work. Is that correct or am I, again, overlooking some trivial setting? Thanks for the nice tool, -- Johan