On my OpenWRT router, dnsmasq needs to be told that it is

authoritative on dhcp requests with the ``dhcp-authoritative'' keyword

in dnsmasq.conf
On 2/14/07, Manuel Ravasio  wrote:

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> Hello all.

> I'm trying to set up a firewall/web-proxy/dns-proxy/dhcp-server box at

> home, using a quite old i386-based pc (AMD k6-2 300, 256mb RAM, 2x10G

> IDE disks) and OpenBSD 4.0.

>

> OS installation, disk management, additional software installation and

> configuration... everything went fine.

> Problems started in configuring dnsmasq: I managed to make dns

> forwarding work ( I really don't need anything more than standard

> behaviour), then I created a DHCP range entry:

>

> expand-hosts

> domain=manuel.test

> dhcp-range=192.168.2.100,192.168.2.200,255.255.255.0,1h

>

> I chose to activate dnsmasq on the "internal" intercace only:

>

> interface=pcn1

>

> pcn1,'s IP address is fixed and compatible with the range specified:

>

> # ifconfig pcn1

> pcn1: flags=8843 mtu 1500

>         lladdr 00:0c:29:af:4f:47

>         media: Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)

>         inet 192.168.2.11 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255

>         inet6 fe80::20c:29ff:feaf:4f47%pcn1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2

>

> I read that creating a dhcp-range entry in /etc/dnsmasq.conf makes

> dnsmasq start the dhcp service automatically, but alas DHCP server

> apparently doesn't work: linux and windows clients can't grab IP

> addresses and other IP information, and netstat doesn't show anything

> listening on port 67/68.

>

> # ps -aux | grep dns

> nobody   16166  0.0  0.3   520   648 ??  S     12:58PM    0:00.00 dnsmasq

>

> # netstat -an | grep tcp | grep -v tcp6

> tcp        0      0  127.0.0.1.53           *.*                    LISTEN

> tcp        0      0  192.168.2.11.53        *.*                    LISTEN

> tcp        0      0  127.0.0.1.6010         *.*                    LISTEN

> tcp        0      0  192.168.2.11.22        192.168.2.1.48605      ESTABLISHED

> tcp        0      0  *.22                   *.*                    LISTEN

>

>

> What am I missing?

>

> Thank you everybody for your kind help.

>

> Byee,

> Manuel

>

>

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