[Kea-users] Reservations via hostnames

[Oscar Carlsson]

Hi,

You can setup Kea DDNS to do the same thing with bind, using RFC2136 and 
tsig keys.

This is the relevant section of the manual for DDNS:

https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/latest/arm/ddns.html


Regards,
Oscar

Den 2023-12-25 kl. 10:03, skrev Luigi Baldoni via Kea-users:
> 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
>