Dnsmasq 'infinite' DHCP lease time?

[wrobelda]

The 'infinite' lease time is an acceptable vale for dhcp-range and dhcp-host options in dnsmasq, however, it is not possible to configure that via the UI.

Is this something that is intentional or just some temporary limitation?

https://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq-man.html

[Monviech (Cedrik)]

The issue is that the lease time field in the GUI is an integer field:

https://docs.opnsense.org/development/frontend/models_fieldtypes.html#integerfield

This means only "numbers" are valid.

"infinite" is a text string.

Maybe we could allow "0" and it would set "infinite". For that we need an issue on github:

https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues

[wrobelda]

Reported an issue upstream: https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/8671