yes, I saw that mainly with the 169.254.x.x addresses.
(See http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q189/2/55.asp)
A way to tune the registries is describe in:
http://www.webmind.ch/tips/win98.htm#automatic_ip
At 05:20 AM 8/13/99 , someone using Weakly, John MR's login wrote:
>A similar situation turned up here and turned out to be associated with
>Windows98, dhcp and register coding that had the host looking for an
>IANA reserved IP server. Get control of this and your logs should get
>smaller.
>
>John
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 1:42 AM
>To: Firewalls mailing list
>Cc: Fox, Bill (AIS)
>Subject: ICMP to IANA Reserved IP's
>
>
>Not sure if this is a 'bonafide' firewalls list type question, but the
>only
>place I'm seeing this type of activity is on my firewall system (which
>includes inner & outer routers...). Hope I'm not out of context here
>;).
>
>I'm having a problem where my inner-router continuously sources ICMP
>packets
>to the bastion host that are aimed at various IANA reserved IP's, such
>as
>"111.111.111.11". Since the bastion host rejects ICMP, all this
>activity
>does is further gorge already bloated logs. (I can shut off the logging,
>of
>course, but I'd rather correct the source of the ICMP). I've tried
>several
>things, such as setting the router's OSPF on the bastion host interface
>to
>passive, but the packets continue, and I'm head-scratching at the
>moment. I
>haven't clipped a sniffer into the subnet, yet, but that's next on the
>agenda. Any pointers greatly appreciated.
>
>--Bill Fox
>
>
>
>
>
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