On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Frederick C. Damen <[email protected]> wrote:
> if a period(.) is used as a separator between the mac address and the > DNS host name in the dhcp-host config file > > dhcp-host=00:e0:61:06:1d:b3.jonathan, 192.168.0.64, 12h > > DHCP works (albeit no name assigned) > I suspect anything from the end of the MAC address until the next comma simply gets ignored. Might be useful to have a warning if there's any non-whitespace characters in there. > > Oct 10 06:33:33 damen dnsmasq-dhcp[6705]: DHCPREQUEST(eth0) 192.168.0.64 > 00:e0:61:06:1d:b3 > Oct 10 06:33:33 damen dnsmasq-dhcp[6705]: DHCPACK(eth0) 192.168.0.64 > 00:e0:61:06:1d:b3 > > > but DNS lookup does not > > # dig @192.168.0.1 jonathan > > ; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2-RedHat-9.7.1-2.P2.fc13 <<>> @192.168.0.1 jonathan > ; (1 server found) > ;; global options: +cmd > ;; Got answer: > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 52205 > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 > > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > ;jonathan. IN A > > ;; Query time: 0 msec > ;; SERVER: 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1) > ;; WHEN: Fri Oct 15 22:13:16 2010 > ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 26 > > > All with no mention of a syntax error in /var/log/messages or > log-facility file. > > Changing the period(.) to a comma(,) fixes the problem. > > though you might want to know, > > Fred > > _______________________________________________ > Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss >
