title: DHClient override renewal time
body: <p>My ubuntu machine is receiving a renewal time of 7000 seconds from the DNS server. I want to change this on the ubuntu machine to be longer via the dhclient.conf. I can't change the dhcp sever. </p>
  
  <p>However all the examples I try don't seem to be the correct syntax. For instance if I add at the top of the .conf to request a lease time of 6000, I get no change. I've also tried </p>
  
  <pre><code>min-lease-time infinite;
  max-lease-time infinite;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>as global variables.</p>
  
  <pre><code>#send host-name "andare.fugue.com";
  #send dhcp-client-identifier 1:0:a0:24:ab:fb:9c;
  send dhcp-lease-time 6000;
  #supersede domain-name "fugue.com home.vix.com";
  #prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
  request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
      domain-name, domain-name-servers, host-name,
      netbios-name-servers, netbios-scope;
  #require subnet-mask, domain-name-servers;
  #timeout 60;
  #retry 60;
  #reboot 10;
  #select-timeout 5;
  #initial-interval 2;
  #script "/etc/dhcp3/dhclient-script";
  #media "-link0 -link1 -link2", "link0 link1";
  #reject 192.33.137.209;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any ideas, seems like it should be easy to do?</p>
  
  <p>TIA</p>