[HN Gopher] Kea 3.0, our first LTS version
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       Kea 3.0, our first LTS version
        
       Author : conductor
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2025-06-26 20:26 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | dgfitz wrote:
       | I'll google it in a moment, but skimming those notes, I have no
       | idea what Kea is.
        
         | lousken wrote:
         | DHCP server?
        
         | digitalPhonix wrote:
         | A DHCP server for those who are wondering
        
         | CBLT wrote:
         | The submitted link might be better changed to the actual
         | release notes: https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-
         | projects/kea/-/wikis/Release-Note... which start with this
         | information.
        
         | a_e_k wrote:
         | I was wondering that too. A DHCP server, apparently:
         | https://www.isc.org/kea/
         | 
         | (This is one place where I think a _little_ editorializing to
         | the page title to add context would be helpful.)
        
         | gertrunde wrote:
         | As others have said, Kea is a DHCP server.
         | 
         | More than that, it is an ISC project, is the successor to ISC
         | DHCP (now end-of-life & unsupported for a few years), and
         | weirdly started out as part of BIND 10.
         | 
         | Ref: https://www.isc.org/dhcphistory/#the-kea-dhcp-server
         | 
         | (And I vaguely recall it's used as the DHCP component in a few
         | other things, like maybe Infoblox).
        
         | somerandomqaguy wrote:
         | Next gen reference DHCP server. IIRC it's new thing is IPv6
         | support.
        
         | bravetraveler wrote:
         | Won't take long, ISC doesn't do 'much' but they do it well
        
       | throw0101c wrote:
       | ISC DHCPd is (being) EOLed.
       | 
       | Kea is ISC's new DHCP server.
        
         | JdeBP wrote:
         | Has been. It was done two and a bit years ago, and the change
         | has even reached Debian now. (-:
         | 
         | * https://packages.debian.org/source/trixie/isc-dhcp
         | 
         | * https://isc.org/blogs/isc-dhcp-eol/
        
       | kayson wrote:
       | I wonder when this will make it into pfsense... The transition to
       | kea has been a bit of a mess with tons of bugs. Thankfully it's
       | controlled by an option, and it seems like 2.8.0 knocked out
       | quite a few of them
        
         | v5v3 wrote:
         | Is opnsense ahead for this then? Or same
        
       | latchkey wrote:
       | I have a positive ending Kea story. We deployed 20,000 PS5 APUs
       | (AKA: AsRock BC-250) each is a individual blade computer that was
       | PXE booted.
       | 
       | We started to see strange behavior on the network and it took a
       | bit of trial and error to figure out what was going wrong.
       | Eventually, we traced it down to dnsmasq being unable to keep up
       | with all the DHCP UDP traffic regardless of how we tuned the
       | kernel/networking buffers.
       | 
       | Switched to Kea and all of our problems magically went away.
        
         | kaladin-jasnah wrote:
         | Wow, I didn't know the BC250s were used at such scale. I bought
         | two to play with for dirt cheap, but haven't gotten around to
         | it yet.
         | 
         | Are they primarily used for mining?
        
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