Thx for your reply... >nslookup(1) is buggy and not a good tool. I recommend that you become > >familiar with host(1) and dig(1). All three are provided by BIND. The > >ISC folks have threatened to drop nslookup. >
Thanks for that tip. I'll study host and dig... > >You looked, and at the time, "xxx" was in the lease file? I bet it > >wasn't. > No - it was in the lease file - I'm sure of it. And I watched the dnsmasq log file as the addresses were handed out. And the addresses in the lease file matched the address I saw when running 'ifconfig' on the console. In the course of debugging, I re-assigned the DHCP address over and over. (by running 'sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart' on the ) Could frequent re-assignment have caused some sort of problem ??
