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    switch over from ISC DHCP to Kea DHCP

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      WN1X @kuchenmann
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      @kuchenmann I have been using Kea since it was added to pfSense 24.03 without any issues at all on my 4200. YMMV.

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        kuchenmann @kuchenmann
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        @kuchenmann

        problem is, that if ISC is configured with NTP-servers using names,
        KEA fails to start, because it only accepts IP-addresses as NTP-servers.
        WTF?
        Never heard about pool.ntp.org?

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          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @kuchenmann
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          @kuchenmann dhcp has never accepted fqdn for ntp.. Before pfsense would resolve that to put the IP into the dhcp server.

          Pretty sure that is one of the things added in the 24.11 release.

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            WN1X @kuchenmann
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            @kuchenmann The NTP servers provided via DHCP option 42 must be IP addresses, per RFC2132.

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              WN1X @kuchenmann
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              @kuchenmann Why don't you set pfSense to use pool.ntp.org and set DHCP to provide the IP address of your LAN as the NTP server?

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