On 12/13/2009 2:51 PM, Ben wrote: > You need to ensure that the clients are sending the hostname in the dhcp > request. Your dnsmasq logs will show it, usually in /var/log/messages, and > if you want you can enable extra logging for dnsmasq to show u exactly what > options are being sent by the clients. Excellent idea. I've been looking @ /var/log/messages which has been very helpful, but perhaps some more detail would help. > If i remember correctly Debian doesn't but i would have thought Fedora would > have by default. > > You can do it by adding "send host-name<insert hostname here>" to the > dhclient.conf. I'll dig around a bit on the clients and see if I can figure it out; if not I can always ask on the respective lists for specifics on each. > Alternatively, you can just assign the static IP using the client MAC in the > dnsmasq.conf. You will have the MAC from the dnsmasq logs so you can just > copy and paste. Yep, thats how I have normally in the past implemented fixed leases on things like a wifi router, etc. I got kind of excited at the notion of *not* having to find the MAC addresses for everything, and then a little disappointed when it didn't quite work out. Being as its for a virtual LAN there isn't a whole lot of urgency if I don't get it working today or tomorrow (or else I'd have already entered the MAC addresses ;) ) so I'm going to try ironing out this way first. Thanks, Monte