Re: weird network address

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Adam bultman wrote:

> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:09:00 -0800
> From: Adam bultman <adamb@glaven.org>
> Cc: aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: Re: weird network address
>
> Bah, my reply went to jamie, and not aklug. Here's what I put:
>
>
> I believe that like 10.0.0.0/8, 192.168/16, 172.[16-31]/16, the
> 169.254.0.0/16 network is just another block of nonroutable, local-LAN
> ip addresses.
>
> Windows machines will, by default, assign themselves a 169.x address if
> they cannot find a DHCP server, but are configured by DHCP.
>
> If you're getting a 169.x.x.x address, it might be because either your
> machine can't find a DHCP address, is finding another DHCP server, or is
> just wacked out on wowie sauce.
>
>
> For more information on nonroutable, special-use IPv4 addresses, see
> RFC3330: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3330.html
>
> Woo, aren't RFC's just *wonderful* reads?!
>
> Adam
>

Yes they are

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2549.html

And the comments are good too.

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