Re: 169.254.0.0/16

From: Joseph D. Phillips (josephdphillips@fastmail.us)
Date: Sat Jul 24 2004 - 10:20:34 GMT-3


Thanks, Howard. That is very good to know.

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 23:17:02 -0400, "Howard C. Berkowitz"
<hcb@gettcomm.com> said:
> At 8:08 PM -0700 7/23/04, Joseph D. Phillips wrote:
> >That is sometimes called the Microsoft loopback or autonet range.
>
> Originally defined for MIT's network, it is specified in the latest
> DHCP RFC as a link-local range from which addresses can be taken if
> the DHCP server is not reachable.
>
> >
> >----- Original message -----
> >From: gladston@br.ibm.com
> >To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> >Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:15:10 -0400
> >Subject: Re: Re: Administrativly scooped address
> >
> >Could you tell us a little more about the phrase "Also, depending on the
> >wording of the question, you may want to block 169.254.0.0 0.0.255.255".
>
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