Laptop does not always recognise server

[Derek Broughton]

John wrote:

> Having googled avahi, and also found that avahi-autoipd was running on
> my 8.04 laptop but not my older one, I have used SPN to remove
> avahi-autoipd. Even after a reboot, it makes on difference. I also still
> seem to have a reference to 169.x.x.x in my network settings.
> 
> How do I progress from here, please?

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derek