[Kea-users] ping-check-hooks – global vs subnet level enable-ping-check behavior

[Darren Ankney]

Hello Dipesh,

I have opened: https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/kea/-/issues/4106
thank you for reporting this documentation error.

Thank you,
Darren Ankney

On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM Dipesh Kayastha
<er.dipesh.kayastha at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Darren,
>
> While testing libdhcp_ping_check.so, I noticed that the documentation under Ping Check Hook shows parameters directly under "user-context".
>
> However, the code (ConfigCache::parseAndCacheConfig) expects them under a nested "ping-check" object.
>
> Example that works:
>
> "user-context": {
>   "ping-check": {
>     "enable-ping-check": true,
>     "min-ping-requests": 2,
>     "reply-timeout": 250,
>     "ping-cltt-secs": 120
>   }
> }
>
> The docs example without "ping-check": {} does not work. Could you please update the documentation to reflect this?
>
> Thanks,
> Dipesh
>
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