Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] what do the contents of /var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases mean?

My guess is that the two copies of dnsmasq that are configured to do DHCP are using the same leases file, which is an all-bets-are-off situation. Using the --dhcp-leasefile option to give them separate files will at least give you a chance of making your config work. Cheers, Simon. On

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] what do the contents of /var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases mean?

Sure! It's a long story, but perhaps interesting. I got a quad core 2.42 GHz, 8GB ram 128GB SSD WIFI, dual nic, Thin Mini PC off Amazon that I had intended to use as my home router running pfsense. I have really crappy DSL at home with an average

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] what do the contents of /var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases mean?

The leftmost 0 means that the leases are infinite, they never expire, which might explain why you're running out of leases. There can be duplicate leases per MAC address, but there should never be duplicate leases for an IP address. So I'm interested in finding out how you've contrived this

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] what do the contents of /var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases mean?

On 1/2/2019 5:01 AM, Sean Kelly wrote: > when I cat the file I see mutiple entries for the same MAC address, what > does this mean? > > 0 98:de:d0:bb:11:0c 192.168.0.10 * 01:98:de:d0:bb:11:0c > 0 98:de:d0:bb:11:0c 192.168.0.10 * 01:98:de:d0:bb:11:0c > 0 98:de:d0:2c:0e:4c 192.168.0.20 *