[Kea-users] Reservations via hostnames

[Darren Ankney]

Hello,

No.  That is not possible.  If you want to only keep IP addresses
updated in one place, I suggest you have a look at ddns and make Kea
the source of truth.

Thank you,

Darren Ankney

On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 4:04 AM Luigi Baldoni via Kea-users
<kea-users at lists.isc.org> wrote:
>
> 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
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