[ Hum, I don't know why it seems my first mail didn't make it to the
  list, so reposting !]
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 06:37:16PM +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 03:14:45PM -0400, JJ Reynolds wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > This is a followup to the excellent patch which allows static IP address 
> > assignment.  The problem with that patch is that you can only set the host 
> > name and cannot set a FQDN because dnsmasq will, as a security measure, not 
> > allow it unless --domain is specified.
> > 
> > This patch adds support for adding <domain name="my.domain" /> to the 
> > network config file.  With that stanza, one can then use FQDNs on the 
> > static host assignments, and this should be the domain reported for any 
> > clients that request it.  If <domain name .. ./> is not specified in the 
> > config file, then there is no change in behaviour.
> > 
> > As a special case, you can also set the domain name to "#", whereupon 
> > dnsmasq interprets that to use the domain of the host OS.
> 
>   Sounds fine to me, and the patch looks clean and simple, I'm fine with
> this, someone else with more networking insight can back this up too ?

   thanks 

Daniel

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