Re: weird network address

Quoting Greg Madden <pabi@gci.net>:

> I am behind a Ipcop firewall, with a dhcp server running, internal
> address's are 192.169.0.x range. I ran ifconfig and got a strange address
> for my box, 169.254.4.199, and a whois spits out the following. How
> would something like this happen ?

Isn't that just an address that gets assigned if no network can be found? I know
M$ boxes get that type of IP address when they can't. I would check the
connection from the computer getting that address and make sure it is good.

Jon
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Received on Wed Jun 21 21:33:08 2006