"Glenn Golden" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Perry, > > On 2020-12-03 4:48 p.m., Perry Hutchison wrote: > > > > I thought it was; it even has a reserved IP address (192.168.0.10) in > > the DHCP server (Netgear router). > > Question: Since the last time it worked properly and now, had you > by any chance enabled avahi, zeroconf, or any other similarly > "helpful" auto-IP-config service daemons? Those services often > assign addresses in the 169.254.*.* range.
Not knowingly. It's conceivable, but I think unlikely, that some Ubuntu update quietly enabled something like that -- but I suspect it was just a matter of the scanner having recovered from a power failure faster than the DHCP server. I power-cycled the scanner earlier today and it reported having gotten its normal IP address back.
