# Kea Administrator Reference Manual

2010-2014
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.

Kea is an open source implementation of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) servers, developed and maintained by Internet Systems Consortium (ISC).

This is the reference guide for Kea version &__VERSION__;. The most up-to-date version of this document (in PDF, HTML, and plain text formats), along with other documents for Kea, can be found at .

This is the reference guide for Kea version &__VERSION__;.

## Acknowledgements

Support for the development of the DHCPv4, DHCPv6 and DHCP-DDNS components was provided by Comcast.

Kea was initially implemented as a collection of applications within the BIND 10 framework. Hence, Kea development would not be possible without the generous support of BIND 10 project sponsors.

JPRS and CIRA are Patron Level sponsors.

AFNIC, CNNIC, CZ.NIC, DENIC eG, Google, RIPE NCC, Registro.br, .nz Registry Services, and Technical Center of Internet are current sponsors.

Afilias, IIS.SE, Nominet, and SIDN were founding sponsors of the project.