On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:58:11 +0930 Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> is it by any chance assigning you a 169... address? Did you recently > upgrade dhcpcd to ... around ... 3.1.6 I think? Anyway, it now tries > "zeroconf" or whatever it's called, to give you an address when > there's no server around. Personally I don't like it, but you can > decide :) This behaviour is called APIPA (Automatic PRivate IP Addressing) (from /etc/conf.d/net.example): # APIPA is a module that tries to find a free address in the range # Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) # use APIPA to find a free address in the range # 169.254.0.0-169.254.255.255 It provides DHCP-like functionality without a DHCP server. Pretty useless, unless you use it to configure all your IPs or a route for that subnet. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
