On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 03:47:40PM +0000, Ken Gillett via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote: > Only just discovered dnsmasq and planning to use it on my LAN, but > have a couple of initial questions I hope can be answered here:- > > I want to allocate all IP addresses from specified range, but provide > DNS names for some hosts identified by hardware/MAC address. > I cannot see how to set this up. > > I can set up the range of DHCP addresses and I can set up a list of > ’static’ addresses for certain specified (by MAC) hosts, but as > far as I can see the latter has to also specify the IP address which I > don’t want to do. I really want all addresses to be allocated from > the DHCP range, but some of those to be linked to a DNS name. I want > to avoid having to specify individual IP addresses for those that I > want to name.
Say the LAN network is 192.168.17.0/24 Put the "static hosts" in one half and assign the other half to the DHCP range. > Seems simple but cannot figure how to set that up so would appreciate > any pointers as to how I can do that. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss