Plans for remote/dynamic configuration backend

[jarus]

Hi,

This is an interesting project. Have you plans to support other configuration backends beside the yaml file? For example, asking a remote HTTP server every N seconds for a new config to retrieve new reservations?

Best regards,
Christoph

[leshow]

Not at the moment, but since leases are not stored in memory, it wouldn't take much to have a script that downloaded a new config and restarted the dora process, run on a timer.

dora will accept configuration in equivalent JSON format also FYI.

[Jackbennett]

Would you be open to a PR on this or is it out of scope? (depending on quality of course XD)

[leshow]

Can you give some more detail on what you're looking for? If it's a script that takes some URL, and polls for changes, then restarts dora I'm sure something along those lines can be found on google fairly easily.

[Jackbennett]

I was interested in the lease & reservations list more than config, that's easy enough to reload, but since static addresses are in the config I suspect that's where reload-questions come from.

I was looking into if ip-manager would behave if something else updated sqlite tables. There's so many tools to replicate sqlite it would be nice to use them to manage day-to-day leases and whitelist reservations. I think you could easily have concurrent servers running then if you trusted sqlite to avoid collisions by adding some transaction handling.

[leshow]

I was looking into if ip-manager would behave if something else updated sqlite tables.

I have not explicitly tested this, but I think it should. You may want to disable cache_threshold though since it keeps some leases in temporarily memory if you're going to modify the leases table from elsewhere.