On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 11:23:28PM +0200, Michael Traxler wrote: > Hello, > > dnsmasq-2.87: > > It took me quite some time to figure this out :-) > > When you disable the DNS-server via > port=0 > > the /etc/hosts file is ignored and also the > addn-hosts=<fn> > is ignored. > > This then results in the problem, that the > DHCP-server still works, but if you use the > > dhcp-host=da:7a:3a:62:7d:d2,trb > > where trb is a name in /etc/hosts > dnsmasq reacts with: > > DHCPDISCOVER(enp2s0) da:7a:3a:62:7d:d2 no address available > > I checked via strace that it really doesn't even open > /etc/hosts nor the given file via the "addn-hosts" option. > > Looks for me like a bug. I can not find a logical reason, why a dhcp-server > *needs* to have a running DNS-server. > > Or is it a feature? :-)
Or an incomplete configuration file. So remove the 'port=0' (or comment it out) and check if the host with MAC-address gets the IP-address of trb. And report back. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
