Hello all,
I'm testing a home LAN server inside Virtualbox - figured it'd be easier
to build (and fix) things inside a virtual sandbox first, and then
migrate over to a physical install once I have most of the kinks worked
out. The host OS is Windows Vista; the guest OS will be various Linux
distributions for education/entertainment purposes.
First, a little explanation on the 'lay of the land':
The first virtual machine is a gateway/router box running CentOS 5.4.
The 'outward' facing NIC is eth0, and it picks up an IP through the NAT
interface provided by Virtualbox. That part seems to be working fine at
the moment. The VM has CentOS 5.4 installed, downloaded and installed
updates, and can browse the web, etc. The 'internal' network adapter
(eth1) is connected to a virtual LAN 'intnet' that is otherwise not
accessible from the 'outside' world at this point. It has a static IP
assigned (10.0.0.1/255.255.255.0), and dnsmasq is running.
Here is the contents of /etc/dnsmasq.conf:
domain-needed
bogus-priv
filterwin2k
except-interface=eth0
dhcp-range=10.0.0.50,10.0.0.100,1h
dhcp-host=asmodean
dhcp-host=demandred
dhcp-host=lanfear
dhcp-authoritative
conf-dir=/etc/dnsmasq.d
and here is the contents of /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
10.0.0.1 rahvin.local rahvin
10.0.0.2 asmodean.local asmodean
10.0.0.3 demandred.local demandred
10.0.0.4 lanfear.local lanfear
What I *want* to happen is to be able to give a fixed dhcp lease to a
client that sends a particular name from /etc/hosts - that way I just
have to maintain /etc/hosts on the gateway/router box for local DNS, and
I don't have to fiddle around finding and recording and entering the MAC
addresses for each network card on each machine (actually easier on a
'virtual' lan than in real life, but still a minor PITA). I got the
idea from this clause in the original dnsmasq.conf file:
# Enable the address given for "judge" in /etc/hosts
# to be given to a machine presenting the name "judge" when
# it asks for a DHCP lease.
#dhcp-host=judge
The specific problem I'm having is that of the virtual 'clients', only
one of them is getting assigned an IP address from the list in
/etc/hosts. 'asmodean', running Ubuntu 9.10 gets its IP address of
10.0.0.2 as planned. The other two, demandred (running F12+LXDE) and
lanfear (running Debian 5.03 Lenny), get randomly assinged IP addresses
from the pool defined in dnsmasq.conf (10.0.0.50-10.0.0.100) like one
would normally expect for a *dynamically* assigned lease. Except I
wanted them to get fixed leases based on /etc/hosts.
I've looked at most everything I can think of on both hosts... it
doesn't seem to much matter if I set the hostname to 'demandred.local'
or just 'demandred'. I'm not sure how to tell if the clients are
sending that information in their requests?
Any other ideas or suggestions? I realize the problem may not be
strictly with the CentOS box, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
TIA,
Monte
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