#892322 prevent dhcp lease reuse

Package:
isc-dhcp-client
Source:
isc-dhcp
Description:
DHCP client for automatically obtaining an IP address
Submitter:
martin f krafft
Date:
2026-08-05 17:34:16 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
Tags:
#892322#5
Date:
2018-03-08 07:49:04 UTC
From:
To:
For various reasons, I consider the leases file that dhclient keeps
a privacy issue because these leases are not only used when there is
no reply from a DHCP server, but also sent in the initial
solicitation. This potentially discloses some information I don't
want disclosed.

I can specify `-vl /dev/null` without impacting the operation, but
this means that I'd have to hook into e.g. wicd and ifupdown to
change the default invocation.

Would it please be possible to let me specify in dhclient.conf that
I do not want any leases file log?

Thank you,

#892322#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
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