2014-04-28 23:50 GMT-07:00 Kevin Cernekee <[email protected]>:
> DHCP entries in /etc/config/dhcp will not automatically create A or PTR
> records.  Add an "option dns" directive which appends an entry to
> /tmp/hosts/dhcp to facilitate forward and reverse DNS lookups.  For
> instance, this item:
>
>     config host
>             option ip       '192.168.0.10'
>             option mac      '00:13:57:9b:df:02'
>             option name     'winpc'
>             option dns      '1'
>
> will add a corresponding entry to /tmp/hosts/dhcp:
>
>     192.168.0.10 winpc.lan
>
> This keeps the hostname/IP/MAC in a single place, for easy maintenance.
>
> Related: ticket #13854 reports an regression involving missing PTR
> records when using "config domain" to define static DNS entries for
> individual hosts.  However, per Simon Kelley[1], the --address feature
> used by "config domain" was never intended to generate DNS A records for
> hosts.  It would probably be better for the reporter to apply this patch,
> and then use "config host" sections instead of "config domain" sections.
>
> [1] 
> http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2008q4/002498.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <[email protected]>

Applied in r40799, thanks Kevin!
-- 
Florian
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