[Samba] Again kea DHCP-Server

[Rowland Penny]

On Sat, 30 Dec 2023 01:07:45 -0600
"David C. Rankin via samba" <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On 11/2/23 05:41, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> > I never said that Kea couldn't be used with Samba, but I can get
> > those 56 lines of Kea conf into 7 lines of dnsmasq config.
> 
> Old bump of thread:
> 
>    But... what you can't do with dnsmasq is send dynamic updates to
> bind to keep your subnet name resolution straight or handle failover
> of that function. 

You can get dnsmasq to run the update script (just like
isc-dhcp-server), but it doesn't seem to do failover. However, this is
Linux, so there is probably some other way (inotify ?)

>I'm not a fan of the forced jump to kea, but ISC
> has basically frozen dhcpd at this point and all future development
> will go to kea (though ISC may provide security updates to dhcpd in
> the even a significant CVE is uncovered)
> 
>    Eventually, those of us running full dhcp/bind setups will all go 
> reluctantly to kea.

Not myself, hell will freeze over before I run kea, it is just too big
to do such a simple job.

Rowland