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create_dhcp_options

Operation

create_dhcp_options async

create_dhcp_options(input: CreateDhcpOptionsInput, plugins: list[Plugin] | None = None) -> CreateDhcpOptionsOutput

Creates a custom set of DHCP options. After you create a DHCP option set, you associate it with a VPC. After you associate a DHCP option set with a VPC, all existing and newly launched instances in the VPC use this set of DHCP options.

The following are the individual DHCP options you can specify. For more information, see DHCP option sets in the Amazon VPC User Guide.

  • domain-name - If you're using AmazonProvidedDNS in us-east-1, specify ec2.internal. If you're using AmazonProvidedDNS in any other Region, specify region.compute.internal. Otherwise, specify a custom domain name. This value is used to complete unqualified DNS hostnames.

Some Linux operating systems accept multiple domain names separated by spaces. However, Windows and other Linux operating systems treat the value as a single domain, which results in unexpected behavior. If your DHCP option set is associated with a VPC that has instances running operating systems that treat the value as a single domain, specify only one domain name.

  • domain-name-servers - The IP addresses of up to four DNS servers, or AmazonProvidedDNS. To specify multiple domain name servers in a single parameter, separate the IP addresses using commas. To have your instances receive custom DNS hostnames as specified in domain-name, you must specify a custom DNS server.

  • ntp-servers - The IP addresses of up to eight Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers (four IPv4 addresses and four IPv6 addresses).

  • netbios-name-servers - The IP addresses of up to four NetBIOS name servers.

  • netbios-node-type - The NetBIOS node type (1, 2, 4, or 8). We recommend that you specify 2. Broadcast and multicast are not supported. For more information about NetBIOS node types, see RFC 2132.

  • ipv6-address-preferred-lease-time - A value (in seconds, minutes, hours, or years) for how frequently a running instance with an IPv6 assigned to it goes through DHCPv6 lease renewal. Acceptable values are between 140 and 2147483647 seconds (approximately 68 years). If no value is entered, the default lease time is 140 seconds. If you use long-term addressing for EC2 instances, you can increase the lease time and avoid frequent lease renewal requests. Lease renewal typically occurs when half of the lease time has elapsed.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
input CreateDhcpOptionsInput

An instance of CreateDhcpOptionsInput.

required
plugins list[Plugin] | None

A list of callables that modify the configuration dynamically. Changes made by these plugins only apply for the duration of the operation execution and will not affect any other operation invocations.

None

Returns:

Type Description
CreateDhcpOptionsOutput

An instance of CreateDhcpOptionsOutput.

Input

CreateDhcpOptionsInput dataclass

Bases: _SerdeShape

Dataclass for CreateDhcpOptionsInput structure.

Attributes

dhcp_configurations class-attribute instance-attribute
dhcp_configurations: list[NewDhcpConfiguration] | None = ...

A DHCP configuration option.

dry_run class-attribute instance-attribute
dry_run: bool | None = ...

Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation.

tag_specifications class-attribute instance-attribute
tag_specifications: list[TagSpecification] | None = ...

The tags to assign to the DHCP option.

Output

CreateDhcpOptionsOutput dataclass

Bases: _SerdeShape

Dataclass for CreateDhcpOptionsOutput structure.

Attributes

dhcp_options class-attribute instance-attribute
dhcp_options: DhcpOptions | None = ...

A set of DHCP options.

response_metadata class-attribute instance-attribute
response_metadata: ResponseMetadata = ...

Metadata about the response that produced this output. Use this to recover the request identifiers a service's support team needs in order to investigate a call. Members of the metadata are individually optional.