Suspicious Class B IP now exists after upgrade to 8.04, LTS

Smoot Carl-Mitchell smoot at tic.com
Fri Jun 6 21:15:51 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 16:01 -0500, Jay Ridgley wrote:
169.254.0.0

That is the zeroconf address which gets assigned to the local machine if
there is no response to DHCP or if addresses are not assigned
statically.

See this article for details:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroconf
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