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.TH dhclient.leases 5
.SH NAME
dhclient.leases - DHCP client lease database
.SH 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 occurrance.
.PP
The format of the lease declarations is described in
.B dhclient.conf(5).
.SH FILES
.B DBDIR/dhclient.leases
.SH SEE ALSO
dhclient(8), dhcp-options(5), dhclient.conf(5), dhcpd(8),
dhcpd.conf(5), RFC2132, RFC2131.
.SH AUTHOR
.B dhclient(8)
was written by Ted Lemon
under a contract with Vixie Labs.   Funding
for this project was provided by Internet Systems Consortium.
Information about Internet Systems Consortium can be found at
.B http://www.isc.org.