ISC DHCP Dynamic DNS feature and Kea DHCP?

CapitanBlack

I've been using FreeIPA bind service for primary and secondary DNS servers for many years. All my pfSenses ISC DHCP are configured for Dynamic DNS updates with FreeIPA bind and this been working flawless for years too.

However, pfSense+ 24.11 Kea DHCP service doesn't seem having this feature, isn't it? Is there a way to add a custom configuration snippet to Kea DHCP - something like:

"DnsServers": [ "192.168.1.1" ],  // BIND server IP
"DnsUpdate": {
    "enabled": true,
    "keyName": "kea-ddns-key",
    "keySecret": "your-secret-key",
    "domainName": "example.com",
    "server": "127.0.0.1",
    "serverPort": 53
}

ahking19

@CapitanBlack try the Kea migration assistant page on the ISC website.

"ISC has developed the Kea Migration Assistant (KeaMA) tool to help users migrate from the legacy ISC DHCP server to the Kea DHCP server. This tool analyzes a valid ISC DHCP server configuration file and provides an equivalent configuration file for a Kea DHCP server."

https://dhcp.isc.org

CapitanBlack

@ahking19 said in ISC DHCP Dynamic DNS feature and Kea DHCP?:

@CapitanBlack try the Kea migration assistant page on the ISC website.

"ISC has developed the Kea Migration Assistant (KeaMA) tool to help users migrate from the legacy ISC DHCP server to the Kea DHCP server. This tool analyzes a valid ISC DHCP server configuration file and provides an equivalent configuration file for a Kea DHCP server."

https://dhcp.isc.org

Thanks! That's a cool solution but how can I use a custom Kea configuration file with pfSense+ ?!

Bob.Dig

Please make this a direct feature in pfSense, especially useful with IPv6.

ahking19

@CapitanBlack there is a Kea config file - /usr/local/etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf

My config is pretty basic so I haven't tried editing it and it may get overwritten but that is where I would look to test. At least until Netgate migrates/implements more of the Kea features.