Dear Geert,
thanks for your answer!
Yes, if remove the line (so, enable the dns-server), I see that the /etc/hosts
is read and then the host gets the correct IP-address of trb.
Actually, this workaround is fine for many distributions, but I realized that
in Ubuntu the systemd-resolve is on by default and this is in conflict the the
dnsmasq-dns-server. Disabling the systemd-resolve causes other error messages
and needs more changes in the setup of Ubuntu to get everything silent, but
I'm not sure of other side effects.
Greetings,
Michael
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On Sat, 22 Oct 2022, Geert Stappers via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote:
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2022 21:15:46
From: Geert Stappers via Dnsmasq-discuss
<dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk>
Reply-To: Geert Stappers <stapp...@stappers.nl>
To: dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq: dhcp-server with disabled dns-server:
/etc/hosts ignored
On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 11:23:28PM +0200, Michael Traxler wrote:
Hello,
dnsmasq-2.87:
It took me quite some time to figure this out :-)
When you disable the DNS-server via
port=0
the /etc/hosts file is ignored and also the
addn-hosts=<fn>
is ignored.
This then results in the problem, that the
DHCP-server still works, but if you use the
dhcp-host=da:7a:3a:62:7d:d2,trb
where trb is a name in /etc/hosts
dnsmasq reacts with:
DHCPDISCOVER(enp2s0) da:7a:3a:62:7d:d2 no address available
I checked via strace that it really doesn't even open
/etc/hosts nor the given file via the "addn-hosts" option.
Looks for me like a bug. I can not find a logical reason, why a dhcp-server
*needs* to have a running DNS-server.
Or is it a feature? :-)
Or an incomplete configuration file.
So remove the 'port=0' (or comment it out) and check if
the host with MAC-address gets the IP-address of trb.
And report back.
Groeten
Geert Stappers
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