Hello Geert and all,
unfortunately this feature isn't convenient when you want to `ping pc`
and wait until it's up; or when you check some system logs and see an IP
and you want to run `host IP` to see which hostname it maps to, yet that
PC isn't up at that time; or in certain multiple DHCP
servers/failover/balancing scenarios.
If there's no way to maintain a single file with that information, then
I'll use a bash script to convert dhcp-hosts to addn-hosts.
Thank you for your help!
Alkis
On 10/3/21 3:37 PM, Geert Stappers wrote:
Hello Alkis,
Hello Dnsmasq mailinglist,
On Sun, Oct 03, 2021 at 11:21:00AM +0300, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:
> Hi, I'm using a dhcp-hostsfile with lines like the following:
>
> b8:27:eb:c4:a5:4a,set:lab1,192.168.67.100,rpi
>
> When that client boots, I can run `host rpi localhost` and dnsmasq
tells me
> its IP.
> But when that client is offline, dnsmasq replies "Host rpi not found:
> 3(NXDOMAIN)"
I consider that a good feature of dnsmasq,
having in DNS what is recently been seen by DHCP.
> Is there any way for dnsmasq to put all the dhcp-hosts into its DNS view
> even when these clients are offline?
> Otherwise I guess I could write a bash script that converts a dhcp-hosts
> file into an addn-hosts file with lines like:
>
> 192.168.67.100 rpi
Yes, that way is DHCP not involved.
> Thank you,
> Alkis Georgopoulos
Groeten
Geert Stappers
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