On 7 Jul 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 15:43, Michael Sternberg wrote: > > > > Is it advisable in case of such failure to start computer with a random > > static IP and continue to look for DHCP server in background ? > > This way the boot process will be at least continued.. > > Choosing addresses at random is verbotten and will get your BOfH to come > chase you around the office with a big LART. You already have a local > loopback address (127.0.0.1) it should be enough provided you have a > /etc/hosts file that maps that to your machine name.
So you think that when dhcpcd fails the system (the script running it) should rewrite /etc/hosts to map the host name to 127.0.0.1 ? Is this done anywhere? What is 169.254.0.0/16 ? $ whois 169.254.0.0 IANA (NETBLK-LINKLOCAL) Internet Assigned Numbers Authority 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330 Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 US Netname: LINKLOCAL Netblock: 169.254.0.0 - 169.254.255.255 Coordinator: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (IANA-ARIN) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (310) 823-9358 Domain System inverse mapping provided by: BLACKHOLE-1.IANA.ORG 192.0.32.18 BLACKHOLE-2.IANA.ORG 192.0.32.19 This is used by windows (>=98 ?) -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]