---
title: "ISC DHCP 4.4 Manual Pages - dhclient.leases"
slug: "isc-dhcp-44-manual-pages-dhclientleases"
description: "Manual pages for ISC DHCP 4.4 dhclient.leases"
tags: ["isc dhcp", "man page", "manual pages", "dhclient.leases"]
updated: 2021-12-21T16:55:35Z
published: 2021-12-21T16:55:36Z
canonical: "kb.isc.org/isc-dhcp-44-manual-pages-dhclientleases"
---

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# ISC DHCP 4.4 Manual Pages - dhclient.leases

# dhclient.leases

## NAME

dhclient.leases - DHCP client lease database

## 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).**

## FILES

**DBDIR/dhclient.leases**

## SEE ALSO

dhclient(8), dhcp-options(5), dhclient.conf(5), dhcpd(8), dhcpd.conf(5), RFC2132, RFC2131.

## AUTHOR

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

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