Showing posts with label dhcp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dhcp. Show all posts

Friday, December 11, 2009

dnsmasq for local virtual network

Setting up local virtual network with VirtualBox. The setup:-

Main Host
  • eth0/bridged mode listen on 192.168.1.200. Connected to the real local LAN.
  • eth1 listen on 10.0.0.1 - dnsmasq dhcp listen here.
Sub internal host
  • app2 - eth0/internal network 10.0.0.2
  • db - eth0/internal network 10.0.0.3
/etc/dnsmasq.conf setup so that the dhcp assigned the IP address from /etc/hosts for any matching hostname.

dhcp-host=app2,db

But the client still getting the lease in dhcp-range rather than the one set in /etc/hosts. Turn out we need to set "send host-name app2;" in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf because dhclient does not send the hostname by default when acquiring the lease.