Quick question (I hope) about DNSMasq and dhcpd

[radad-home]

I think I have guessed the answer to my question, but would appreciate if someone more experienced could confirm it for me.

I use pfsense at home with one of the cheaper prebuilt micro boxes sold in the pfsense store a couple years ago. It serves as a router, firewall, dhcp server for the couple dozen or so devices inside the house among family members and a home run business.

Kids are getting to internet age and wanted to see if I could use OpenDNS filtering on their devices only.

I use DNSMasq (DNS Forwarder service in the gui) with Google's dns servers defined in System –> General Setup.

I've tried using some of the DNSMasq advanced settings to force lookups at OpenDNS servers for certain MAC addresses. DNSMasq appears to be able to do this according to my Googling.

So I enter this in the advanced options box for the DNS forwarder:

dhcp-mac=set:kiddns,XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (actual MAC address here)
dhcp-option=tag:kiddns,option:dns-server,208.67.222.222,208.67.220.220

This doesn't work (kid's device does lookups at Google like normal), and I'm guessing that these particular options don't work because DNSMasq isn't actually providing dhcp, as I think it can according to the man pages.  My hope was that dhcpd and dnsmasq sort of worked together, but I'm guessing they don't

Other advanced options work fine (like I managed to turn on logging with the appropriate command).

My preference was to use this option instead of static mappings for the kids devices, as I think if I just give them the OpenDNS servers in a static DHCP assignment, the devices won't be aware of local hostnames on our network.

So if anyone can confirm that this isn't possible w/DNSMasq, I'll give the static mapping a try.

Thanks.

[cmb]

dnsmasq is strictly for DNS, we don't use its DHCP capabilities. Configure that under Services>DHCP server.