When it starts. It has own data stored in-memory and just rewrites lease file. It would not read any new leases from it if some other service pushed them there. If dnsmasq is restarted, it starts a new process. It has to read all configuration all again, which has to be done for leases.
On 2/10/22 22:33, Chris Green wrote: > As per the subject when does dnsmasq [re]read the leases file? > > I am experimenting with my backup DHCP/DNS strategy and I have just > stopped my dnsmasq server and started another listening on the first > dnsmasq server's IP address. It's working OK'ish. However the new > dnsmasq server doesn't (of course) know the name/IP pairs that the old > dnsmasq server had in its memory. > > If I had copied the dnsmasq.lease file across from the old server to > the new one would that help? Is there some way to tell dnsmasq to > reload its memory from the file? If dnsmasq is restarted (e.g. by > systemd) does it read the dnsmasq.leases file? > -- Petr Menšík Software Engineer Red Hat, http://www.redhat.com/ email: pemen...@redhat.com PGP: DFCF908DB7C87E8E529925BC4931CA5B6C9FC5CB _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
