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

David Vincent dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca
Fri Jun 6 21:25:45 UTC 2008


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> The address is 169.254.0.0

That's an "APIPA" addres.

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

"Both IPv4 and IPv6 have standard ways of choosing IP addresses without
help. By RFC 3927, IPv4 uses the 169.254.* (link-local) set of
addresses. For IPv6, see RFC 2462."

- -d


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