TekkioNS

Every location needs DNS and DHCP to function, and most operators are solving that problem the same way they solve everything else at the edge: a separate appliance, a separate configuration, and a separate thing to break.

TekkioNS brings core network services, DNS, DHCP, and routing directly into the Tekkio platform as a native workload, fully integrated with TekkioMesh. The result is a location that comes up correctly configured from the moment the cluster is online, with no additional hardware required and no network services to manage independently. For operators provisioning new sites at scale, that means one less variable between a cluster powering on and a location ready to trade.

TekkioNS runs as a native workload on the cluster — no separate appliance, no separate OS to maintain. DHCP is operational today and handles address assignment cleanly at each site. DNS is also live, currently resolving from DHCP-assigned entries alongside a set of synthetic entries that stand in for what TekkioMesh will provide directly once the integration with tekkiod is complete. That integration — having TekkioNS pull live mesh entries from tekkiod and hand them out as DNS — is the immediate next milestone. Once in place, every unit on the mesh will be resolvable by name automatically, without any operator configuration.

A dedicated DNS appliance, or any other standalone device performing these functions at each location can be eliminated. More importantly, the configuration that lives on those devices — DHCP scopes, DNS forwarders, whatever was set up by whoever set it up — no longer exists as an independent artefact that can drift, break, or become unrecoverable when the hardware fails. TekkioNS makes DNS and DHCP part of the cluster, managed through the same platform as everything else, and present and correct from the moment a new site comes online.