* On 2023 11 Feb 21:30 -0600, David Wright wrote: > I've read that machines give themselves a 169.254.… address when they > boot up and can't find a DHCP server. But I never see those addresses > when I boot up a machine, disconnected or connected. All I see is > localhost on 127.0.0.1, the machine's hostname on 127.0.1.1, and > if connected, the 192.168.1.NN address handed out by DHCP.
I've never seen a Debian or other Linux distribution self-assign such an address, but years back at work MS Windows NT 4.0 machines that could not reach a network would do so routinely. It made it easy for me to simply look at the IP address and know there was some connectivity issue for that machine. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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