I think windows uses 192.168.x.x
That a RFC 1918 unassigned address range.
Shachar
Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>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 ?)
>
>
>
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