Once upon a time, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> said:
> * Chris Adams:
>
> > Once upon a time, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> said:
> >> It seems as if the ISC dhcp package has been EOL'd upstream:
> >>
> >> https://www.isc.org/dhcp/
> >
> > I'm a little surprised that nobody has forked this to continue
> > maintaining it. dhcpd is widely used, and kea is far from a drop-in
> > replacement.
>
> It's … just not very good. A lot of the logic resides in a shell script
> that runs as root, uses bash arithmetic expansion, and processes
> untrusted data from the network. That's not a good combination at all.
Well, I was really talking about dhcpd, not dhclient.