dhclient.leases(5)

dhclient.leases5

Dhcp client lease database

Overview

The Internet Systems Consortium DHCP client keeps a persistent database of leases that it has acquired that are still valid. The database is a free-form ASCII file containing one valid declaration per lease. If more than one declaration appears for a given lease, the last one in the file is used. The file is written as a log, so this is not an unusual occurrence.

The format of the lease declarations is described in dhclient.conf(5).

Files

DBDIR/dhclient.leases

Releases

15 releases since Debian 2.1 (Slink); the text changed 12 times.

  1. 2.1
  2. 2.2
  3. 3.0
  4. 3.1
  5. 4.0
  6. 5.0
  7. 6.0
  8. 7
  9. 8
  10. 9
  11. 10–11
  12. 12–13
  13. Arch

Author

dhclient(8) Information about Internet Systems Consortium can be found at https://www.isc.org.

From dhclient 4.4.3.P1-4 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.