Wednesday, July 03, 2019

Re: Feeding DHCP leases into unbound

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:47:03AM +0200, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have unbound(8) and dhcpd(8) running on a router (OpenBSD 6.1-stable).
> dhcpd currently hands out fixed addresses to my clients, but I'd like
> these to be allocated dynamically from the common pool, while at the
> same time being resolvable.
>
> Is there an existing solution for feeding the IP-addresses of the leases
> that dhcpd hands out into the unbound configuration and reload it, or
> would I have to write a script that parses the lease declarations in
> /var/db/dhcpd.leases?

I have scripted it the other way around. I have comments in /etc/hosts
containing the MAC addresses for the hosts and then generate dhcpd and
unbound configurations from that. dhcpd offers IP address based on MAC.

>
> I know about dnsmasq in ports which I believe serves as both DHCP and
> DNS server, but I'd rather use the software in the base system if at all
> possible.
>
> Regards,
> Kusalananda

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