Re: weird network address

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Adam bultman wrote:
> 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
>
> jonr@destar.net wrote:
>> 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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Thanks Adam for the clarity and accuracy of your reply. Yes, I think
RFC's are
wonderful reads. They promulgate the true, ungarbled word.

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