On Sat, Aug 03, 2019 at 11:36:25PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sat, Aug 03, 2019 at 09:50:44PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > I'm running dnsmasq version 2.76 on a raspberry pi to provide DNS and > > DHCP services on my LAN. > > > > I have some dhcp-host lines in my configuration file to give names to > > systems that don't give their names, e.g.:- > > > > dhcp-host=00:09:B0:C9:CE:81,onkyoTx-nr616 > > dhcp-host=28:EF:01:2D:EB:07,chrisKindle > > dhcp-host=08:EB:74:9D:47:53,humaxFreeview > > dhcp-host=2C:08:8C:CC:9A:9E,humaxYouview > > dhcp-host=00:1F:E2:4E:8F:CA,maxineStudy > > dhcp-host=1C:1B:0D:60:9A:E1,ben > > dhcp-host=AC:AE:19:2C:3F:5A,roku > > dhcp-host=10:FE:ED:63:29:74,TL-WA7210 > > > > Most of these work but a couple don't work.... ..and I think I have > > just realised why they don't work. Systems which don't request their > > IP address from dnsmasq don't provide dnsmasq with their MAC address > > and thus dnsmasq doesn't give them a name. > > > > Presumably these static IPs must be put into /etc/hosts on the dnsmasq > > system, is this the only way of handling this? > > To handle what? > > Please elaborate the challenge you are facing. > The 'challenge' of giving names to IPs which don't want to tell me their names! :-)
I want TL-WA7210 and 'ben' to be names I can use (and see). -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
