diff --git a/pkgs/fennelrepl/default.nix b/pkgs/fennelrepl/default.nix
index 24749b2..ba8a5e3 100644
--- a/pkgs/fennelrepl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/fennelrepl/default.nix
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ let packages = [
       linotify
       anoia
       fennel
+      lua.pkgs.luafilesystem
     ];
     join = ps: builtins.concatStringsSep ";" ps;
     luapath = join (builtins.map (f:
diff --git a/pkgs/odhcp-script/odhcp6-script.fnl b/pkgs/odhcp-script/odhcp6-script.fnl
index 10c7231..0e18ce3 100644
--- a/pkgs/odhcp-script/odhcp6-script.fnl
+++ b/pkgs/odhcp-script/odhcp6-script.fnl
@@ -1,8 +1,25 @@
 (local { : split : merge : mkdir } (require :anoia))
 (local { : view } (require :fennel))
+(local lfs (require :lfs))
+
+(fn rmtree [pathname]
+  (case (lfs.symlinkattributes pathname)
+    nil true
+    {:mode "directory"}
+    (do
+      (each [f (lfs.dir pathname)]
+        (when (not (or (= f ".") (= f "..")))
+          (rmtree ( .. pathname "/" f)))
+        (lfs.rmdir pathname)))
+    {:mode "file"}
+    (os.remove pathname)
+    {:mode "link"}
+    (os.remove pathname)
+    unknown
+    (error (.. "can't remove " pathname " of kind \"" unknown.mode "\""))))
+
 
 (local state-directory (assert (os.getenv "SERVICE_STATE")))
-
 (mkdir state-directory)
 
 (fn write-value [name value]
@@ -13,7 +30,6 @@
 (fn write-value-from-env [name]
   (write-value name (os.getenv (string.upper name))))
 
-
 (fn parse-address [str]
   (fn parse-extra [s]
     (let [out {}]
@@ -39,6 +55,10 @@
 ;; a half-updated snapshot
 (os.remove (.. state-directory "/state"))
 
+;; remove parsed addresses/prefixes from any previous run
+(rmtree (.. state-directory "/prefix"))
+(rmtree (.. state-directory "/address"))
+
 (let [wanted
       [
        :addresses
diff --git a/pkgs/odhcp-script/test.sh b/pkgs/odhcp-script/test.sh
index c6fbbd9..d464742 100755
--- a/pkgs/odhcp-script/test.sh
+++ b/pkgs/odhcp-script/test.sh
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@ cleanup(){
 trap 'exit 1' INT HUP QUIT TERM ALRM USR1
 trap 'cleanup' EXIT
 
+# call the script twice with different state, to test that it cleans
+# out old values when it runs again
+
+(set -a; .  ./test.env ; ADDRESSES=2001:80:111:111:0:fff:123:567/128,3600,7200 SERVICE_STATE=$statedir fennelrepl odhcp6-script.fnl ppp0 bound)  10>&1
+
 (set -a; . ./test.env ; SERVICE_STATE=$statedir fennelrepl odhcp6-script.fnl ppp0 bound)  10>&1
 
 (cd $statedir && find . -type f | xargs grep '' | sort) > actual