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General Discussion / Re: DHCP Static Mappings as Aliases?

« on: May 27, 2024, 10:16:29 am »

The last two responses are not at all helpful.

Look for:
DHCP Static Mappings

We're all already using those, which is why we'd like to be able to specify aliases for them.

You may use Dnsmasq DNS instead of Unbound. It allows easier configuration of aliases.

It has the exact same issue (I mentioned it in my first reply). The hosts that are already mapped to an IP in DHCP are not present in the Unbound or Dnsmasq lists, so one cannot assign aliases to them. An IP address must be double-specified (once in DHCP and once in the chosen DNS override service) for each host you require aliases for.

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General Discussion / Re: DHCP Static Mappings as Aliases?

« on: November 28, 2023, 07:16:18 am »

This is still a problem. The workaround is adding explicit A/AAAA overrides, which is double-specification, when the entire point of registering the DHCP hosts in Unbound/Dnsmasq is to avoid that. It would be nice to be able to create arbitrary Aliases, but I'm forced to attach them to an existing override.

What if the lists that show overrides in Unbound and Dnsmasq could, in addition to showing regular overrides, show the DHCP hosts as non-editable pseudo-entries so that relevant aliases could be added?