[Kea-users] Deleted subnet not picked up by config-reload API command

Chad Catlett chad at catlett.info
Wed Jan 13 18:19:44 UTC 2021


On 1/13/21 10:30, Emile Swarts wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a KEA server which polls for a new configuration file every 5 
> minutes.
> It reloads the configuration by sending the 'config-reload' command to 
> the API.
>
> This does not seem to be reloading the subnets defined in the 
> configuration file. I removed a subnet, but still able to lease IPs 
> from it with perfdhcp from a remote site.
>
> Should this be the case? Is there another command that needs to be run 
> for KEA to pick up the deleted subnet changes in the configuration file?
>
> The command can be seen here: 
> https://github.com/ministryofjustice/staff-device-dhcp-server/blob/main/dhcp-service/bootstrap.sh#L66 
> <https://github.com/ministryofjustice/staff-device-dhcp-server/blob/main/dhcp-service/bootstrap.sh#L66>
>
> Thanks,
> Emile


Emile,

I'm fairly certain you need to tell the control agent which service to 
route the config-reload to.

An example with pretty formatted json:

<snippet>
{
    "command": "config-reload",
    "service": [ "dhcp4" ]
}
</snippet>


Chad



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