[systemd-devel] "Correct" way to obtain DHCP lease info?

[Bruce A. Johnson]

Is there a correct way to obtain information about the DHCP lease 
received by systemd-networkd's DHCP client functionality? It was easy 
enough to find SERVER_ADDRESS in /var/run/systemd/netif/leases/4, but 
there is a big fat warning stamped at the top of the file:

> # This is private data. Do not parse.
I'd like to be able to make a widget that can tell me which DHCP server 
issued my lease, how much more time I have, etc., mainly because I want 
to be able to ping something that is known to be on the network. I'm 
dealing with a lazy sysadmin who doesn't want to put a gateway on this 
private network, I haven't found a solution using the CLI tools.

Thanks in advance.

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