[Dnsmasq-discuss] DHCPv6 with dnsmasq for automated deployments

[Simon Kelley]

> 
> Alternatively: 
> Does somebody know of a clean way to administratively expire a lease handed out by dnsmasq? 
> Then deployment tooling could forcefully expire an old lease when reinstalling a node, and after the final reboot in the installed OS. 
> 
> Right now, I only know one could:
> - Stop dnsmasq.
> - Purge the lease from the leases-file. 
> - Restart dnsmasq. 
> 
> Is there a more convenient way? 
> 


There's a method in the DBus API to delete a DHCP lease. See
dbus/DBus-interface for details.


Simon.