Hi all!
I've noticed something on all of my Red Hat 9.0 installations. Whenever I
use the route command to display my kernel routing tables I find a route
to the 169.254.0.0 network. I can remove it without any problems though
(except in one case where I kept getting a kernel error; I fixed it by
reinstalling the nfs-tools package).
I've done a dig on the IP and got nothing. A whois, however, gets this:
# whois 169.254.0.0
[Querying whois.arin.net]
[whois.arin.net]
OrgName: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
OrgID: IANA
Address: 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
City: Marina del Rey
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 90292-6695
Country: US
NetRange: 169.254.0.0 - 169.254.255.255
CIDR: 169.254.0.0/16
NetName: LINKLOCAL
NetHandle: NET-169-254-0-0-1
Parent: NET-169-0-0-0-0
NetType: IANA Special Use
NameServer: BLACKHOLE-1.IANA.ORG
NameServer: BLACKHOLE-2.IANA.ORG
Comment: Please see RFC 3330 for additional information.
RegDate: 1998-01-27
Updated: 2002-10-14
OrgAbuseHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
OrgAbusePhone: +1-310-301-5820
OrgAbuseEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OrgTechHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgTechName: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
OrgTechPhone: +1-310-301-5820
OrgTechEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2003-08-29 19:15
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
Anyone know exactly what this means? Is this a hack attempt? Or is it
harmless? Maybe a bug?
God bless!
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