The manpage for dhclient-script says:

Before actually configuring the address, dhclient-script should
somehow ARP for it and exit with a nonzero status if it receives a
reply.

By using arping in dracut this is very easy, since arping has a
specific option to do just that.
---
 modules.d/40network/dhclient-script |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/modules.d/40network/dhclient-script 
b/modules.d/40network/dhclient-script
index 013c8f1..b03cf1c 100755
--- a/modules.d/40network/dhclient-script
+++ b/modules.d/40network/dhclient-script
@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ case $reason in
        sleep 1
        ;;
     BOUND)
+       if ! arping -q -D -c 2 -I $netif $new_ip_address ; then
+           warn "Duplicate address detected for $new_ip_address while doing 
dhcp. retrying"
+           exit 1
+       fi
        setup_interface 
        set | while read line; do
            [ "${line#new_}" = "$line" ] && continue
-- 
1.6.0.4

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