From 65e9a8957ccf64eb50402060ccf823a876ad6ed6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 10:58:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix order of reads dhcp-hostsfile and /etc/ethers.

Reading /etc/ethers assumes that dhcp-host cofig has already
been read, and that is the case for dhcp-host, but for unknown
reasons, the analogous congiguration is dhcp-hostfile was being
read after /etc/ethers.

Swap the order.

Thanks to Andreas Kuropka for spotting the problem.
---
 src/dnsmasq.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/dnsmasq.c b/src/dnsmasq.c
index 62a9e59..9c37e5a 100644
--- a/src/dnsmasq.c
+++ b/src/dnsmasq.c
@@ -1777,9 +1777,9 @@ void clear_cache_and_reload(time_t now)
 #ifdef HAVE_DHCP
   if (daemon->dhcp || daemon->doing_dhcp6)
     {
+      reread_dhcp();
       if (option_bool(OPT_ETHERS))
 	dhcp_read_ethers();
-      reread_dhcp();
       dhcp_update_configs(daemon->dhcp_conf);
       lease_update_from_configs(); 
       lease_update_file(now);