[Server-devel] DNS/DHCP configuration questions/issues

[Reuben K. Caron]

On May 24, 2012, at 11:40 AM, Kévin Raymond wrote:

> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Reuben K. Caron <reuben at laptop.org> wrote:
>> Kevin, Xavier,
>> 
>> On May 24, 2012, at 5:00 AM, Kévin Raymond wrote:
>> 
>>>> It's only a DNS issue now between dhcpd/named and the xos.
>>> 
>>> As we were not able to get the right dhcpd/bind configuration,
>>> we just dropped it, and used dnsmasq instead.
>>> 
>>> dnsmasq is really easy to configure, and provide DNS and dhcp capabilities.
>>> It's only matter of one single file.
>>> 
>>> After some sleep and final settings, we would publish our configuration.
>> 
>> Did you ever try removing this line from your dhcpd-xs.conf?
>> 
>>>> DHCPDARGS=wlan0
>> 
> 
> Yep.
> But as explained before, the dhcp server was sending the ip address,
> we only get an issue with the DNS (not set on the client
> automatically).
> Moreover, the options should be defined in the subnet, not global as
> done in the original file.
> Still no luck.

Interesting. We've heard and I've seen no other issues previously with this configuration.

> Hopefully it's only matter of one file and 5 or 6 lines with dnsmasq.

Glad you got it sorted.

> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Reuben
> 
> 
> 
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