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Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?



Jerry Quinn writes:
 > Stephen A. Witt writes:
 >  > On Tue, 27 May 2003, Jerry Quinn wrote:
 >  > > Hi, all.  I have a debian box serving as my firewall/router/dhcp
 >  > > server.  The dhcp does the job fine, except for dns.
 > 
 > Excellent pointer!  Except for the fact that it doesn't seem to work.
 > I had to manually configure it to read the dhcp lease file (which I
 > think should happen by default), but even afterwards it fails to
 > resolve other machine on my network.

Turns out it was working and the machine I was trying to ping was
asleep and therefore had no lease.

This is great!  I put in a wishlist to have dnsmasq read the dhcp
lease file out of the box.  Then dnsmasq will really be plug and
play.

Jerry



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