#688864 isc-dhcp-client: Please provide a command-line option to avoid updating /etc/resolv.conf

Package:
isc-dhcp-client
Source:
isc-dhcp
Description:
DHCP client for automatically obtaining an IP address
Submitter:
Noel David Torres Taño
Date:
2026-08-05 17:33:49 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#688864#5
Date:
2012-09-26 12:43:22 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

Sometimes dhclient is used to test network configurations. In these cases,
it is a pain to need to go each time to hook files to have
/etc/resolv.conf updated or not.

Please add a command line flag to avoid updating /etc/resolv.conf

Thanks

#688864#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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