Package: isc-dhcp-server Version: 4.3.5-3 Followup-For: Bug #882250 This issue seems to be caused by the Debian-specific patch dhcommon- getifaddrs.patch, reverting this patch in the Debian Stretch source package and compiling and installing the package also resolves the problem.
In my previous posts I forgot to mention that eth0 on my machine also has some aliases: eth0:0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 172.16.3.251 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 172.16.255.255 ether 00:0d:b9:0d:84:b0 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) eth0:1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 172.16.4.251 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 172.16.255.255 ether 00:0d:b9:0d:84:b0 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) eth0:2: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 172.16.2.251 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 172.16.255.255 ether 00:0d:b9:0d:84:b0 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) I do not know what makes the new method using getifaddr() fail on eth0 in my specific case. Maybe the multiple ip6 addresses, maybe the aliases, maybe anything other. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages isc-dhcp-server depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.61 ii debianutils 4.8.1.1 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii libdns-export162 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u3 ii libirs-export141 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u3 ii libisc-export160 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u3 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 Versions of packages isc-dhcp-server recommends: ii isc-dhcp-common 4.3.5-3 ii policycoreutils 2.6-3 Versions of packages isc-dhcp-server suggests: pn isc-dhcp-server-ldap <none> ii policykit-1 0.105-18 -- Configuration Files: /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf changed [not included] /etc/dhcp/dhcpd6.conf changed [not included] -- debconf information excluded