Hi Jan, ISC DHCP is EOL and unlikely to make it into Forky proper:
https://www.isc.org/blogs/isc-dhcp-eol/ Please switch to ISC Kea instead. Help such as updating the wiki would be appreciated --Daniel Debian Networking Team On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 11:37:26AM +0100, Jan Huijsmans wrote: > Package: isc-dhcp-server > Version: 4.4.3-P1-8 > Followup-For: Bug #1039244 > > This issue still exists and breaks the package permanently in forky. > > No clue why the systemd file hasn't been included, as the > one from ubuntu isc-dhcp-server (4.4.1-2.3ubuntu2.4) works > perfectly when you create the dhcpd user and group. > > The Debian wiki (https://wiki.debian.org/DHCP_Server) reports > isc-dhcp-server as the package to use to setup a dhcp server, > so I would have expected this to have been fixed by now before > things break. > > Work around: > * take /lib/systemd/system/isc-dhcp-server.service from > ubuntu package isc-dhcp-server (4.4.1-2.3ubuntu2.4) > * create system user dhcpd with own group > * systemd daemon-reload > * enable and start isc-dhcp-server > > Either fix the package (ubuntu solution under a separate user is > even better) or offer an alternative dhcpd and update the wiki. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: forky/sid > APT prefers stable-security > APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, > 'oldoldstable-security'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, > 'oldstable'), (100, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable') > Architecture: arm64 (aarch64) > > Kernel: Linux 6.19.6+deb14+1-arm64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) > Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CRAP > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) > (ignored: LC_ALL set to C), LANGUAGE not set > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > LSM: AppArmor: enabled > > Versions of packages isc-dhcp-server depends on: > ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.92 > ii debianutils 5.23.2+b1 > ii libc6 2.42-13 > > Versions of packages isc-dhcp-server recommends: > ii isc-dhcp-common 4.4.3-P1-8 > pn policycoreutils <none> > > Versions of packages isc-dhcp-server suggests: > pn ieee-data <none> > pn isc-dhcp-server-ldap <none> > pn polkitd <none> > > -- Configuration Files: > /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf changed [not included] > /etc/dhcp/dhcpd6.conf changed [not included] > > -- debconf information excluded
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