[Kea-users] Reservations via hostnames

[Luigi Baldoni]

Sent: Monday, December 25, 2023 at 6:47 AM
From: "Kenneth Porter" <shiva at sewingwitch.com>

> > On 12/24/2023 4:26 AM, Luigi Baldoni via Kea-users wrote:
> > I have a home setup with bind and the old ISC DHCP server.
> > Since the latter is no longer supported, I would like to switch to Kea, but
> > I couldn't find a way to use hostnames instead of IP addresses for MAC-based
> > static leases.
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong? Is this feature no longer supported?
> > Or perhaps there's a different way to do this, possibly via ddns?
> > I would like to avoid having to keep my IPs up to date in two different
> > places.
>
> It sounds like you mean that you want Kea to look up hostnames found in a reservation in the config file to find the IP addresses to assign.
 
That's precisely what I would like Kea to do. Is it possible?

Regards