On Aug 12, 2011, at 7:49 AM, Mark Martinec wrote: >> in fact, any connection to amavis from 169* would be >> strange... unless your laptop also did not get a good ip and pulled a >> 169* address. > > Yes. It would be unusual, although not impossible.
It has become "best practice" to route 169 on enterprise networks so that a host which has a DHCP problem can still reach internal things. Note: Not my "best practice". I believe that problems should highlight themselves to get fixed. But the mentality is very different for many IT groups. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness
