Package: ifupdown Version: 0.8.35 Followup-For: Bug #923640 Dear Maintainer, This bug is seemingly due to misguided single-stack DHCPv4 servers that are still found in the wild. If dhclient sents a client identifier at all, they will NAK and not respond. Hence the previous report of being able to obtain an IP address via a manual 'dhclient eth0', which will default to not using the '-i' option that is now the default in ifupdown (see #906894). On my installation I have confirmed the following (options setting pid files and leases files removed for brevity, they do not change anything): dhclient -4 -v -I works dhclient -4 -v -i -I fails with a DHCPNAK from the server dhclient -4 -v -I fails if 'send dhcp-client-identifier' is set in /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf [a non-exhaustive search of possible identifiers ahs yet to find one that the server will accept]. A possible solution is to add a configuration option for /etc/network/interfaces to enable/disable this on a per-interface basis. Or to be able to flag an interface as 'legacy v4' or similar and entirely disable v6 and related features. Severity has been flagged as important because this results in an unusable system silently across upgrade if you're on a network with such a server. Yours, Ian Abel -- Package-specific info: --- /etc/network/interfaces: # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). source /etc/network/interfaces.d/* # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto enp0s31f6 iface enp0s31f6 inet dhcp --- /etc/network/interfaces.d/*: cat: '/etc/network/interfaces.d/*': No such file or directory --- up and down scripts installed: /etc/network/if-down.d: total 4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 372 Jul 30 2018 openvpn /etc/network/if-post-down.d: total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Oct 10 04:17 avahi-daemon -> ../if-up.d/avahi-daemon /etc/network/if-pre-up.d: total 4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 344 Jun 30 2016 ethtool /etc/network/if-up.d: total 12 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 484 Apr 27 2018 avahi-daemon -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1685 Jun 30 2016 ethtool -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 385 Jul 30 2018 openvpn -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages ifupdown depends on: ii adduser 3.118 ii iproute2 4.20.0-2 ii libc6 2.28-8 ii lsb-base 10.2019031300 Versions of packages ifupdown recommends: ii isc-dhcp-client [dhcp-client] 4.4.1-2 Versions of packages ifupdown suggests: ii ppp 2.4.7-2+4.1 pn rdnssd <none> -- no debconf information