On Mon, 2014-07-21 at 10:55 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I have a headless system that I cannot connect to. So I was thinking > to put a direct connection to it and my notebook. Both ethernets > would use the zeroconf (169.254.0.0/16) addresses. I could then use > fping > > fping -g 169.254.0.0/16 > > And SHOULD be able to get its address, and then SSH into the box.
I was under the impression that zeroconf did some rudimentary name resolution, and you ought to be able to connect to hostname.local (replacing "hostname" with the actual hostname). It'd be a bit dopey if a zero-configuration scheme required you to configure things... > Any other thoughts? I can't get to the box to recable it and reboot > it (as that is the only way I can figure out for it to readdress eth0) > until this evening. Only that: Are you on the same network? 169.254 connections can't be expected to be reachable outside of their own net. -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.14.8-200.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Mon Jun 16 22:36:56 UTC 2014 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
