Hi,

I recently experienced a problem with dhclient issuing a ton of requests
in rapid fire mode in an endless loop because the file system where it
wanted to write its lease file, was mounted read-only. It got a new IP
everytime and added them all to the interface. It would be nice if
dhclient could just be content with having one IP address, and then stop
asking until the lease expires, regardless of the state of the file
system, instead of issuing dozens of DHCP requests per second.

I experien


Cheers,
--Toni++

Hi Toni,

Toni Mueller wrote:

Thanks for that bug report. Nice discovery.

I (not one of the isc-dhcp package maintainers, but lurking on their
list due to a general interest in DHCP) ran into that several times
now (with a single host using up all leases on my DHCP server!), but
only noticed it only due to no more leases being available, i.e. there
was nothing more left to debug.

So I assume it was caused by a temporarily full /var file system or
similar, which went away before I noticed that it also had these
hundreds of additional IPv4 addresses on my box as side effect.

Raising the severity to important as this might have a kind of DoS
effect on the local LAN (not the hammering but the using up of all
available IP addresses). ISC DHCP package maintainers: Feel free to
downgrade again if you disagree.

		Regards, Axel

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

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