the server is fine. I think. I'm fuzzy on why I need pc8 in that line, but whatever: it seems to be sending 192.168.1.8 to the client. other clients work just fine.
I just learned that ubuntu bionic uses a new networking management thing called "netplan" I suspect this is relevant. juser@dc10b:~$ cat /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # For more information, see netplan(5). network: version: 2 renderer: networkd ethernets: enp0s25: dhcp4: yes On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 2:22 PM, john doe <johndoe65...@mail.com> wrote: > On 7/23/2018 1:23 AM, Carl Karsten wrote: >> >> I am not sure if this is a dnsmasq problem, but hopefully someone can >> help me track down who's problem it is. >> >> My dhcp server has: >> host-record=pc8,192.168.1.8 >> > > From the man page: > > http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq-man.html > > host-record: > ... > "in hosts-file also. Unlike hosts-files, names are not expanded, even when > expand-hosts is in effect. Short and long names may appear in the same > host-record, eg. > --host-record=laptop,laptop.thekelleys.org,192.168.0.1,1234::100 > If the time-to-live is given, it overrides the default, which is zero or the > value of --local-ttl." > > HTH > > -- > John Doe > > _______________________________________________ > Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list > Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk > http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss