Hello, On 26 December 2016 10:29:26 GMT+01:00, "Pali Rohár" <pali.ro...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Friday 23 December 2016 10:39:20 Markus Hartung wrote: >> Is there a way to flush the lease database in dnsmasq? I have tried >> removing the line in /var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases and restart dnsmasq >> but my laptop still gets the same IP-address. Or is it that dnsmasq >> uses the mac-address to generate same IP-address every time? > >Removing lease database file when dnsmasq is not running should be >enough. > >But dhcp client can try to "renew" already assigned IP address and dhcp > >client (dnsmasq) can extend this lease if nobody is using requested ip >address. > >So you should remove both *client* and *server* databases to prevent >such situation. > >I think it is possible to configure dnsmasq to assign only configured >ipv4 address for mac address. > >For dhcpv6 I have own dnsmasq patches which assign ipv6 address bases >on >mac address...
That could be interesting with such patch. Is there any reason it haven't been accepted? What I need is just a way for a given mac-address dnsmasq should be informed of the hostname. BR, Markus -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
