On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 16:55, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> If you disable zeroconf the 169.254 entry is dropped. What use is it?
> Nothing I have found explains what it is used for or why I need it on my
> systems. Waving your hands and saying don't be bothered by the
> existence of such entries does not explain what it is used for. Getting
> rid of it does not impact the systems either. Kind of like an appendix.
> :)
The idea is that you can plug machines into a local network and have
them talk to each other with no setup and no preconfigured DHCP service.
Each picks some more-or-less random and hopefully unique address in
this subnet. Windows boxes will do it if a DHCP request times out.
Machines can find and access each other by name with broadcast based
naming like netbios or dns over multicast like rendezvous.
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Les Mikesell
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