[Kea-users] Suggestions requested

[Tom Gillman]

Howdy folks,

I'm trying to implement something with kea and I was hoping to pick the hive brain.

What I'm trying to do is, on a request for DHCP, format a JSON query to a network service that will return a hostname and IP address. Then, generate a lease (using memfile) which then gets returned to the requesting client. I can do all that in a shell, which I was using the kea-hook-runscript hook library to do. The first part all works well. The problem comes in trying to update the memfile. The kea-hook-runscript calls an external shell to do the work, and blocks waiting on that shell to exit. Because it's blocked, I can't issue any lease commands through the control channel to do the updates I desire.

I'm not sure how to get around this, I feel like making the external callout non-blocking would introduce race conditions that would bite me later on. The only real solution I see is use a 3rd-party DB like mysql and handle the updates within the script, but that introduces overhead that I'm unwilling to do.

I'm not much of a programmer, so saying "Build your own hook library" really isn't an option given the time constraints I'm under. I feel like I might eventually be able to it, but I simply don't have the time.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Any constructive criticism is appreciated.

Thanks,

-Tom
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