This is discussed in some detail in the "zero-conf" IDs; I don't know that any are RFCs yet.
The intent is to mimic the "stateless autoconfiguration" in IPv6 in an IPv4 world. Regards, Justin On Friday, October 26, 2001, at 11:44 , Paul Hoffman / VPNC wrote: > Sorry to barge in with a technical, standards-related question. It > seems that there is a common practice that when a host asks for an > IPv4 address, such as through DHCP, but the host isn't attached to > the network, that the software gives it an address of 169.254.x.y. Is > this documented in any RFC? Should it be? > > --Paul Hoffman, Director > --VPN Consortium > > --- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large * Institute for General Semantics | Director of Technology | It's not whether you win or lose... Nexsi Systems Corp. | It's whether *I* win or lose. 1959 Concourse Drive | San Jose, CA 95131 | *--------------------------------------*-------------------------------*
