[LINK] Amusing for some...

[r.polanskis at uws.edu.au]

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Michael Still wrote:

> r.polanskis at uws.edu.au wrote:
>
> > Apparently MS systems preset a special IP address for unconfigured network
> > interfaces to do DHCP requests.   Some networks actually setup
> > routes for these preset IPs' and do updates and so on to them so
> > I can imagine in a scenario such as this, that it only takes
> > one uncalculated mouse click and you're done for.   I only found this
> > special IP yesterday while resolving a Win/UNIX comms problem and
> > was told the story behind it...
>
> Are you refering to zeroconf IP addresses? Windows, Mac and Linux all
> implement the zeroconf specification in some form (if enabled).


I guess so - I didn't know much about it till the other day,
since I spend most of my time on Solaris.

I figure the UK govt admins probably have their zeroconf network configured
somehow and that is what caused the misdeployment of the systems....


rachel

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