Fedora "Netstat -rn" reports an extra entry "169.254.0.0 ...."

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 20.04.2004 schrieb Guolin Cheng um 23:07:

> Hi, all,

>  I got an additional entry when I run "netstat -rn" on my fedora host,
> an "169.254.0.0 ..." entry appears without being invited. I know that
> 169.254.0.0/16 is a private address block for some kind of special
> purposes, and it appears in "ifup" script, But my question is: what does
> this entry mean?  And How to get rid of it if it does nothing except
> bring security holes? Since it is routable now through my hosts' exneral
> interface, ridicules..

Put NOZEROCONF=yes into /etc/sysconfig/network to get rid of this
additional route. Though it does no harm being there.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-January/msg02353.html

> ./network-functions-ipv6:               # test 169.254.0.0/16 (APIPA /
> DHCP link local)

APIPA is the keyword: Automatic Private IP Addressing. See

http://www.petri.co.il/what's_apipa.htm

or other pages through google

> Thanks.
> 
> Guolin Cheng

Alexander


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