Your message dated Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:31:09 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1143544: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #490065,
regarding dhcp3-server: dhcpd gives lease to mac address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
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490065: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=490065
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Package: dhcp3-server
Version: 3.0.4-13
Severity: normal
A buggy network card forgot it's mac address,
so the XP client asked for a dchp lease with mac address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
The dhcpd did not notice that the mac address is the broadcat address, and
assigned an IP.
Luckily the network did not went down.
Here are some lines from the log:
Jul 9 15:30:26 s-homoktovis dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (ht003)
via eth0
Jul 9 15:30:26 s-homoktovis dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 10.8.48.196 to
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (ht003) via eth0
Jul 9 15:30:26 s-homoktovis dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.8.48.196 (10.8.48.254)
from ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (ht003) via eth0
Jul 9 15:30:26 s-homoktovis dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.8.48.196 to ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
(ht003) via eth0
Powering off the client PC solved the problem :)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages dhcp3-server depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11etch1 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dhcp3-common 3.0.4-13 Common files used by all the dhcp3
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
dhcp3-server recommends no packages.
-- debconf information excluded
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 4.4.3-P1-8+rm
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
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
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Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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