dynamically generating /etc/hosts

[The Small Box Admin]

Can you use dnsmasq to provide both DHCP and /etc/hosts (single file for
local stuff), and forwarding DNS queries?

I don't think I've seen /etc/hosts being populated the way you want.

Ken

On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 4:44 PM, Lonni J Friedman via Linux-users <
linux-users at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> My home network has an assortment of Linux systems, which get their IP
> assignment via an ISC dhcpd server (also running on Linux).  The dhcp
> leases are handed out based on the MAC address of the client, such
> that they always get the same IP address assignment.
>
> However, I'd like to be able to generate an /etc/hosts file on all of
> the clients that has the IP & hostname associations based on the dhcp
> leases.  This is where I'm not finding any solutions which don't
> require running a namserver of some sort too.
>
> Anyone have any experience with this sort of thing (generating
> /etc/hosts on clients)?
>
> thanks!
>
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