Finally, IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 203 has been released, migrating our DNS system to Knot Resolver: [image] IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 203 Download IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 203 here

My update went otherwise without issues except hostnames from DHCP leases don’t resolve. After adding hostname to Hosts and rebooting client it resolved again. This was on Linux client, I haven’t test Windows yet. Great news is that DNS resolving feels now faster and memory usage dropped over 50%…

[image] mapi: My update went otherwise without issues except hostnames from DHCP leases don’t resolve. Yes, this can happen as the database has to be built first. After all leases have been renewed they should all resolve. In the default configuration this should not take longer than 60 minut…

Same here. Its frustrating. What shall I do now - with 16GB RAM!? About 12 GB are now useless… :smiling_face_with_tear: [ram-usage-core203]

Maybe I should have been more specific. I’ve set fixed leases and used remark to set them hostnames. Now it ignores that set hostname completely and uses hostname configured in client or if client itself don’t have set hostname it doesn’t get any hostname from DHCP server. I guess we have to use Ed…

Hi all. Core Update 203 is showing much lower memory usage. Even with IPS enabled with many rules, multiple IP blocklists and DNS firewall with ads, malware and phishing lists enabled memory usage is only 2.88G. [image] And it has remained stable for almost 12 days now. [image] Great work ev…

My denon AVR is getting wrong hostname. In AVR config it’s Denon AVR-2300W. [image] DHCP lease conf it’s just denon [image] DHCP log from IPFire 21:44:27 dhcpd: execute_statement argv[4] = DOMAINNAME=localdomain 21:44:27 dhcpd: execute_statement argv[3] = HOSTNAME=0123456789 21:44:27 dhcpd: ex…

That is what I tried to describe in this post: [image] CU 203 Test : DNS does not update DHCP leases Testing I have a laptop that I use via Wi-Fi when mobile and via a wired connection at my desk. The PC’s Windows hostname is “matebook”. With CU202, the local…

[image] pscar13: But no one understood. This seems to be a very common thing with your posts. I would recommend you work on it so that people are actually able to understand or otherwise people will be talking to themselves in a thread. [image] pscar13: The REMARK field for fixed leases …

IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 203 released

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pscar13 (pscar13) 20 July 2026 17:03 7

A DHCP configuration issue was identified during testing; neither the upgrade nor the restore process (CU203) correctly migrates the dhcp.conf file.