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--- docker_notes:docker-dhcp [2024-12-15 Sun wk50 09:17] – [Docker - DHCP Kea Server] baumkp
+++ docker_notes:docker-dhcp [2025-06-08 Sun wk23 19:34] (current) – [main dhcp4] baumkp
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 =====History=====
-The article by Lee Hutchinson [[https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/10/finally-upgrading-from-isc-dhcp-server-to-isc-kea-for-my-homelab/|Finally upgrading from isc-dhcp-server to isc-kea for my homelab]] was writen after I made the upgrade.  He wrote an a much earlier article on [[https://blog.bigdinosaur.org/running-bind9-and-isc-dhcp/|running BIND9 and ISC_DHCP]] in his blog. It looks like he updated this [[https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/doing-dns-and-dhcp-for-your-lan-the-old-way-the-way-that-works/|Doing DNS and DHCP for your LAN the old way—the way that works]] with a semi related part 2 [[https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/banish-oem-self-signed-certs-forever-and-roll-your-own-private-letsencrypt/|Banish OEM self-signed certs forever and roll your own private LetsEncrypt]].  In my earlier implementation of my router DHCP and DNS that was writen on "bare metal I did follow Lee's notes on DDNS between ISC-DHCP and BIND9.  I never particularly like the DDNS as I hard coded all my important services directly However when upgrading to Kea I
+The article by Lee Hutchinson [[https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/10/finally-upgrading-from-isc-dhcp-server-to-isc-kea-for-my-homelab/|Finally upgrading from isc-dhcp-server to isc-kea for my homelab]] was written after I made my upgrade to Kea.  He wrote an a much earlier article on [[https://blog.bigdinosaur.org/running-bind9-and-isc-dhcp/|running BIND9 and ISC_DHCP]] in his blog, which I found referenced in [[https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/the-ars-guide-to-building-a-linux-router-from-scratch/|The Ars guide to building a Linux router from scratch]]. It looks like he updated this [[https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/doing-dns-and-dhcp-for-your-lan-the-old-way-the-way-that-works/|Doing DNS and DHCP for your LAN the old way—the way that works]] with a semi related part 2 [[https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/banish-oem-self-signed-certs-forever-and-roll-your-own-private-letsencrypt/|Banish OEM self-signed certs forever and roll your own private LetsEncrypt]].  In my earlier implementation of my router [[https://wiki.kptree.net/doku.php?id=linux_router:dns_dhcp|DHCP and DNS]] that was written on "bare metal I did follow Lee's notes on DDNS between ISC-DHCP and BIND9.  I never particularly like the DDNS between ISC DHCP and BIND9 for the following reasons:
+  *I makes the BIND9 file messy.  The DDNS entries are all over the place in the zone files with different timetolife headers all over the place too.
+  *One had to take greater care to freeze Bind9 when adjusting zone files as DHCP could be writing to it. With Bind in a Docker container, I just restart the container after adjusting the zone file.
+  *I just static IPv4 addresses for my main home server services and manually define the domain names in the Bind zone files where required.  The dynamically defined DNS is simply not important for me.
+  *Other less critical non-server addresses that I want a constant LAN IP I define as static in Kea.
+  *Whilst I expect DDNS certainly has some benefits the use of simple setup of back up of DNS and DHCP is much more beneficially to me.  I run my main home server and NAS and a separate router service focused server. Both of these run Kea and Bind in Docker containers in back-up mode.  If I fiddle with either machine the other provides reliable backup DHCP and DNS. This is much more beneficial to me than DDNS.  If DHCP or DNS are unavailable on my home network it can be very confusing, difficult, time consuming and frustrating to make it work again.  Backup DHCP and DNS on my home server system is simply so much more beneficial than DDNS.
+There are more references on building a home router and related here: [[https://wiki.kptree.net/doku.php?id=linux_router:dns_dhcp#main_references_used_2017|Main references used]], sadly some of these already suffer from link rot even though the information was still relevant.
 =====Kea Packages and Hooks=====
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 I had a problem when upgrading to to Kea 2.6.0 that stopped kea-dhcp4 operating with an error ''file: /etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf, reason: subnet configuration failed: missing parameter ‘id’''.  The error also reported the configuration line where the missing parameter was expected.  Adding the missing parameter to the file as per Kea docs [[https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/kea-2.6.0/arm/dhcp4-srv.html#ipv4-subnet-identifier|ipv4-subnet-identifier]] resolved this error.  Apparently this parameter was auto assigned in earlier versions of Kea, if not manually assigned in configuration file.  In Kea version 2.6.0 manual assignment became mandatory, see [[https://kb.isc.org/docs/changes-to-be-aware-of-when-migrating-to-kea-2-6-0|Changes to Be Aware of When Migrating to Kea 2.6.0]].++++
+++++Upgrade problems from Kea 2.6.2 to 2.6.3, yet again broken or perhaps enforced configuration backwards compatibility, TL;DR;|
+The socket files **must** now be in ''/run/kea'' and directory permission must be set to 750.
+I previously used a general docker volume director directive to place all my configuration files into /app and then configured from there as required.
+    #"name": "/app/kea.leases4.csv",
+    #Kea 2.6.3 requires /var/lib/kea
+    "name": "/var/lib/kea/kea.leases4.csv",
+    "output": "/app/log/kea-dhcp4.log",
+    "output": "/var/log/kea/kea-dhcp4.log",
+Symlinking did not seem to work:   /bin/ln -sf /app/log/ /var/log/kea , so I created a specific docker volume to the log file and this did work,  - '/mnt/docker_store/kea/.config/log:/var/log/kea'.
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 ====ctrl-agent -t /app/kea-ctrl-agent.conf====
   *''kea-ctrl-agent -t /app/kea-ctrl-agent.conf'' to test the kea-cont-agent configuration file ''/app/kea-ctrl-agent.conf''
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     *[[https://web-wilke.de/install-and-run-kea-dhcp-with-stork-on-debian-11/|Install and run KEA DHCP with Stork on Debian 11]]
     *[[https://github.com/JonasAlfredsson/docker-kea| JonasAlfredsson / docker-kea ]]
-Kea read the docs ''%%https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/latest/arm/intro.html%%'' [[https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/latest/arm/intro.html|Intro]] give the latest docs and the into states which version this is.  A specific version can be found by changing the ''latest'' in the html path to the Kea version required, e.g. as of writing the current verion I am using is 2.6.1, so '%%https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/2.6.1/arm/intro.html%%'' [[https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/2.6.1/arm/intro.html|Intro]]
+    *[[https://www.henrydu.com/2020/09/15/kea-dhcp-webinar-01/|Kea dhcp webinar 01]]  [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr8kGTcJ5WY|Youtube Webinar]]
+Kea read the docs [[https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/latest/arm/intro.html|Intro]] give the latest docs and the into states which version this is.  A specific version can be found by changing the ''latest'' in the html path to the Kea version required, e.g. as of writing the current verion I am using is 2.6.1, so '%%https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/2.6.1/arm/intro.html%%'' [[https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/2.6.1/arm/intro.html|Intro]]
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