Thanks, that makes it much clearer to me! :) On Apr 2, 2012, at 9:50 PM, Simon Kelley wrote:
> On 02/04/12 15:35, Ali Jelveh wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I've just run into a weird issue with our local dnsmasq installation: >> I have an address setting in my config "address=/protonet/10.42.0.1" >> but the moment someone with a host named "protonet" connects and gets >> his ip address dnsmasq seems to no longer return 10.42.0.1 but the IP >> of that new machine, is this intended? Am I doing something wrong? > > > It's intended that names-addresses from DHCP should override > address=/<domain>/, yes, and if a machine is called "protonet" then that > name will override the address you've configured. > > There are at least three approaches that will fix this. If you don't > care about names for DHCP hosts, add > > dhcp-ignore-names > > to /etc/dnsmasq.conf. That will stop dnsmasq adding the names of any > DHCP hosts to the DNS. > > If the problem is just one machine, you could add > > dhcp-host=<alternative-name>,<MAC address of client> > > to control the name given to that machine. > > Alternatively, do something like > > domain=example.com > dhcp=fqdn > > That will stop the DHCP machine having the name "protonet" (and stop the > override) but it will still have the name "protonet.example.com" > > This change will apply to all DHCP names, of course. > > > HTH > > > Simon. > >> >> Cheers, Ali >> >> _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss >> mailing list [email protected] >> http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
