dhclient.leases(5) File Formats Manual dhclient.leases(5)

# [NAME](#NAME)

dhclient.leases - DHCP client lease database

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

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)](/man/os/dhclient/dhclient.conf.5).**

# [FILES](#FILES)

**DBDIR/dhclient.leases**

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[dhclient(8)](/man/os/dhclient/dhclient.8), [dhcp-options(5)](/man/os/dhclient/dhcp-options.5), [dhclient.conf(5)](/man/os/dhclient/dhclient.conf.5), [dhcpd(8)](/man/os/dhclient/dhcpd.8), [dhcpd.conf(5)](/man/os/dhclient/dhcpd.conf.5), RFC2132, RFC2131.

# [AUTHOR](#AUTHOR)

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

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Document: dhclient.leases(5) from dhclient 4.4.3-r46 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://downloads.isc.org/isc/dhcp/4.4.3-P1/dhcp-4.4.3-P1.tar.gz