[Kea-users] Introduction and Questions

[Darren Ankney]

Hi Ian,

1. Your understanding is correct except for two points:  A NCR will
occur if something changes (such as hostname) during a subsequent
renewal.  You can force kea to send a NCR on renewal with the
"ddns-update-on-renew" parameter.  There is no way to send ddns
updates upon creation of a reservation.  If you want to request such a
feature, you can do so here:
https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/kea/-/issues

2. You may purchase professional support services if you wish.  See
here: https://www.isc.org/support/ There isn't any other support
channel besides the mailing list or professional support services that
is managed by ISC.

Thank you,
Darren Ankney

On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM Ian Perry <ianperry95 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm Ian, I'm the director of IT for a small avionics company. I'm in process of getting a Kea HA/Stork stack deployed and finding it fairly straightforward. Unfortunately, I have run into a few issues and I had a couple questions if anyone has answers.
>
> 1. My understanding is that it's only on the issuance of a lease that the DHCP server sends an NCR to the dhcp-ddns server for updates to DNS. Does anyone know of a way to get this to happen whenever a host reservation is created in addition, so that the DNS entry gets registered before the host requests an address, or is the only solution to enter DNS manually or wait for the host to request an address? Is this something that people would find a feature request for to be amicable?
>
> 2. Is there any official/unofficial IRC/Slack/Discord anything other than a mailing list? I don't want to hate on the mailing list, but a more modern instant messaging platform is more my forte.
>
> Thanks,
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