dhclient.leases(5)

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💖 NAME 💖

okay so this is the dhclient.leases(5) page — File Formats Manual realness — and it's all about the DHCP client lease database. The name is literally:

dhclient.leases — DHCP client lease database. That's it, periodt 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

The Internet Systems Consortium DHCP client keeps a persistent database of the leases it has acquired that are still valid. This database is a free-form ASCII file, and it contains one valid declaration per lease. Slay, honestly.

Now, plot twist: if more than one declaration appears for a given lease, the last one in the file is used. Bestie, that is not a weird glitch — the file is written as a log, so this is not an unusual occurrence. It's giving diary energy, but make it DHCP 🫶

The format of the lease declarations is described in dhclient.conf(5). Go read that if you want the full breakdown, iykyk.

📁 FILES 📁

  • /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient.leases — the one and only path on this page, and yes it's iconic ✨

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

Go read these too, bestie — they're all right here:

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

The AUTHOR section is short and sweet: it's dhclient(8), plus “Information about Internet Systems Consortium can be found at https://www.isc.org.” Cute. No extra author names, no cap.

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 Source/version sign-off: dhclient.leases(5) — File Formats Manual. Date on the footer? None listed, so we're not making one up, fr fr. Periodt 💖✨

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