#1059851 isc-dhcp-client: dhclient -4o6 unknown command

Package:
isc-dhcp-client
Source:
isc-dhcp-client
Description:
DHCP client for automatically obtaining an IP address
Submitter:
Daniel Haryo Sugondo
Date:
2026-08-05 17:33:12 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1059851#5
Date:
2024-01-02 12:06:23 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

I'm trying to get lease for dhcp4 over dhcp6. For dhclient there is an option
on manpage called '-4o6 port'. Unfortunately shows dhclient this option as
"unknown command", and so I can't check if the 4o6 configuration at server side
works or not.

# dhclient -4o6 6767
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.4.3-P1
Copyright 2004-2022 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Unknown command: -4o6
Usage: dhclient [-4|-6] [-SNTPRI1dvrxi] [-nw] [-p <port>] [-D LL|LLT]
[--dad-wait-time <seconds>] [--prefix-len-hint <length>]
[--decline-wait-time <seconds>]
[--address-prefix-len <length>]
[-s server-addr] [-cf config-file]
[-df duid-file] [-lf lease-file]
[-pf pid-file] [--no-pid] [-e VAR=val]
[-sf script-file] [interface]*
   dhclient {--version|--help|-h}

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exiting.

Would you please to check or fix this option, to get it works?

Thank you and best regards,

Daniel Sugondo.

#1059851#10
Date:
2026-08-05 17:31:09 UTC
From:
To:
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
earliest.

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