On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 12:28:24 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> That ipv6 is a funny one though, did you run lsmod before and after
> running route -n? Because the line
> 
> 169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth0
> 
> is for the ipv6 lo interface one. You can see that with
> route -A inet6 -n

The 169.254.0.0 network is what Microsoft call APIPA (Automatic
Private IP Addressing).  If you don't have a DHCP server on your
network and you don't have a static IP address, then you will be
randomly assigned an address in that subnet.

I have re-enabled IPv6 (to fix postfix) and added some local hosts to
/etc/hosts.  Everything seems to be working.

If this mDNS thing is going to get more common, then I guess I will
have to rename my domain some time :-(

> Btw it's a good idea to configure the firewall on every machine. It's one
> more level of control and it's cheap in both runtime and setup.

I intend to do that next.

-- 
Later

David Kirk

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