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Package: isc-dhcp-client
<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=isc-dhcp-client>
I am experiencing a strange behaviour, and this might be connected to
the bug #595190 (isc-dhcp-client: goes into an infinite loop if server
only answers on broadcast).
I am trying to debug two DHCP servers (one is on a Windows Server 2012
R2, and the other one is dnsmasq on Ubuntu 22.04).
*To check them both, I am using the option '-s <address>", but this does
not work correctly.*
* dhclient sends a DHCPDISCOVER, and as the option suggests, it does
not send this as a broadcast, but as a unicast to the server given
in the option.
* Neither DHCP server, however, answers this with a DHCPOFFER, but
both of them send a DHCPACK.
* So, it seems as if dhclient assumes to have sent a DHCPDISCOVER and
thus waits for a DHCPOFFER - whereas the servers seem to interpret
the package as a DHCPREQUEST and answer with DHCPACK.
* As this behaviour is identical on both DHCP servers, I dare to
assume that this is an error in the package sent by dhclient.
* (Moreover, although I deleted the file /var/lib/dhcp/dhcp.leases,
the dhclient somehow seems to remember its former lease address and
inserts it into the DHCPDISCOVER package. Is that correct?)
* And worse, if I do not delete the old lease file, dhclient sends a
DHCPREQUEST for its former address - which will can be acknowledged
if the request is for an address issued from server A, and the
request goes to server B... (but this might be by design)
I observe the behavior with dhclient
* sc-dhclient-4.4.3 on Linux Debian 12
* isc-dhclient-4.4.1 on Linux Mint 20.3 Una
* sc-dhclient-4.4.1 on LinuxUbuntu 20.04.5
Best regards,
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Dear submitter,
as the package isc-dhcp has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1143544
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