assigned.In RedHat 9 the 169.254.0.0/16 gets added to the routing table on boot. Probably to play nicely with windows boxen. In Windows 2000+, if there is no DHCP server available, an APIPA address (169.254.x.x) is
Yep. RedHat 9 introduces zeroconf, which you need to disable if you don't want it. Really, it's quite harmless, as the 169.254.x.x is a private network space, and isn't routable over Internet links.
So, if it is harmless and even could improve communication with windows well probably I don't have any reason to get rid of it. Ok, as I go learning slowly and Im biologist not computer scientist please be patient.
With my simple network, simple questions: two boxes connected to a router which acts as dhcp server and firewall and connects to my dsl provider how can I set hostnames for the boxes that will map to the ip addresses leased by the dhcp server even if they could potentially change? I have tried by adding the parameter DHCP_HOSTNAME=myname to one of the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, but when I try, say, to ping one of the boxes it returns "unknown host". Adding the host name to /etc/hosts works but then starting sendmail at boot takes ages (probably because sendmail listens to localhost only?). Do I need internal DNS? Do I need to contact my ISP to give even internal names to my machines? which are the common workarounds for this?
The question is because I guess it is quite fundamental to solve this issue in order to establish other types of communication between the two machines, NFS for instance.
Thanks a lot for any tips.
Felipe.
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