On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Mike Burger mburger@bubbanfriends.orgwrote:
On 12/26/2012 04:33 AM, Mike Burger wrote:
169.xxx.xxx.xxx is most certainly a "routable" IP block, as far as internet standards go.
Most of 169/8 is, but presumably he meant 169.254.0.0/16.
The only "non-routable" (i.e. reserved for private networks) IP blocks are:
The list is slightly longer than that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_IP_addresses#Reserved_IPv4_addresses
Fair enough...I've just never seen anyone actually use it.
I've only ever seen 169.254.0.0/16 used by ZeroConf on Windows boxes and I expect Avahi (zero conf alternative) on Linux does the same.
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