On 08/12/2011 07:53 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: > On Aug 12, 2011, at 7:49 AM, Mark Martinec wrote: >>> in fact, any connection to amavis from 169* would be strange... >>> unless your laptop also did not get a good ip and pulled a 169* >>> address. >> >> Yes. It would be unusual, although not impossible. > > It has become "best practice" to route 169 on enterprise networks so > that a host which has a DHCP problem can still reach internal > things. > > Note: Not my "best practice". I believe that problems should > highlight themselves to get fixed. But the mentality is very > different for many IT groups. >
Scarequotes typically represent logical negation.
