[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: extra ip route

[Jack Snodgrass]

> After receiving no response, I commented out those lines and that seemed
> to take care of it. But I was a bit curious as to how they got in there
> in the first place?

I never saw the post... you sure you made it? ;) I tunned out a lot
of the list recently with all of the posts about that subject tht
I'm ignoring...

I found this on Google. (I've seen that address on my widows
boxes when the DHPC server times out )

... from google.... ( google is your fried )...
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169.254.0.0/16 is the netblock reserved for IP link-local addresses
using the draft Zeroconf standard.  Zeroconf is better known in its
incarnation as Apple's Rendezvous.

The same netblock is used in basically the same way with Microsoft's
Universal Plug 'n Play.  It should be pointed out that the security
problems with UPnP are not related to its use of link-local addresses in
this way.

Routes like this one are stopgap responses that allow Linux to somewhat
participate in Zeroconf/Rendezvous networks.  There are several projects
afoot to write a real implementation for Unix-like systems.

For more information, look at zeroconf.org.
-- 
Jeff Licquia <jeff at licquia.org>
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jack