On Sunday 09 May 2004 07:11 pm, mailinglists@ianschorr.com wrote:
What does ifconfig say about eth0? Does the route go away if you ifdown and ifup eth0?
Quoting Glenn Holmer
: I've seen this on a couple machines already: on my internal network, using 192.168.1.x, "route -n" is showing
Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.7 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
Where is the 169.254.0.0 coming from? I wasn't seeing this with 9.0.
Do a whois 169.254.0.0 and you'll see it is called part of the Blackhole. As I read it, it is the /dev/null for wayward machines who cannot get an IP from their dns. Nothing to really worry about except figuring how to get your machine back talking to its DNS. See the RFC 3330. I first came across it a few days ago when my Firewall blocked me from going out onto the net. To me it simply means something like - You dumass you forgot to set up your firewall properly, which is what happened to me but then I dont do windows often enough to care. Rebooted to Linux where I have much better problems. Richard