Hello Simon, All,
I recently tried to configure dnsmasq to handle my DNS and DHCP for a small
home LAN, however I was unable
to get dnsmasq to provide IP addresses, dispite it being so simple in the
configuration. As a result I filed a gentoo
bug, and having gone through all the checks it seems
Your config looks good so one idea can be that you have firewall rules
filtering incoming traffic toward udp port 67
If that is not your case then can you see incoming dhcp requests with
tcpdump while NOT see respective outgoing dhcp replies? If so, are there
any messages from dnsmasq in your
Gyorgy Farkas obtained a packet capture which confirmed my theory that
Win XP forces its DHCP client into REBINDING state when it sees loss of
carrier on a network interface.
I've prepared another release candidate for dnsmasq 2.23 which takes
this into account and generates appropriate
