* max.spicer shaped the electrons to say...
That's a link-local address. If the DHCP request times out, it will use a 169.254.x.x address until DHCP succeeds, at which point it will
switch to the new address.
What is a link-local address? Windows boxes fall back to 169.254 when they can't get an address and I've always assumed this was just Microsoft being random. How does it help to pick a seemingly invalid address that almost certainly won't work in any situation?
If there are multiple machines on the same network with no DHCP server, it will allow them to communicate:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3330.html
In combination with something like Zeroconf (Rendezvous/Bonjour), naming is also solved.
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