Thanks for your quick reply endecotp, The problem is that we want our device to advertise its hostname to the network so that the customer can easily navigate to their device in a browser. This works when our device is running dnsmasq-base--removing dnsmasq solves the connectivity issue, but then the user can no longer connect to the device. I read the archwiki on dnsmasq. and it has the following subsection: Proxy DHCP In case there is already a DHCP server running on the network and you want to interoperate with it, dnsmasq can be set to behave as a "proxy DHCP", therefore only serving the #PXE server specific information to the client. This mode is only available with IPv4. Use the following syntax, providing the existing DHCP server address: dhcp-range=192.168.0.1,proxy But I tried it and it did not resolve the problem. I appreciate the keywords! I'll do some googling to see if link-local or mDNS can solve my problem.