On 5/14/2019 6:42 PM, Kevin Flynn wrote: > > Hello everyone. > > I'm currently working on a small home network voip system, and I cannot > for the life of me figure out how to get dnsmasq to send dhcp option 12 > hostnames to clients. I've tried all the obvious methods, including > /etc/ethers, dhcp-hostsfile entries, dhcp-ignore-names, > dhcp-generate-names, tag sets, etc. with no luck. > > As I was searching the list archices, I noticed a comment from Simon > mentioning that dnsmasq will not send a dhcp option 12 hostname to a > client if the client sends a hostname to dnsmasq, and none of my > configuration attempts seem to be able to override this behavior. > > The reason for attempting this, is that I have 2 voip ata adapters, > which are Linksys/Cisco SPA3000 and they are configured by default to > send the hostname "SipuraSPA." and I am attempting to configure and > provision these devices automatically, as opposed to logging into each > device individually everytime they need to be configured. > > So in summary, is there any way to tell dnsmasq to send a dhcp option 12 > hostname to a client reliably, everytime, regardless of what the client > is sending ? >
Why not using the MAC address of those devices in dnsmasq? "--dhcp-host=[<hwaddr>][,id:<client_id>|*][,set:<tag>][,<ipaddr>][,<hostname>][,<lease_time>][,ignore" http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq-man.html -- John Doe _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
