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

[Mike Klinke]

On Tuesday 20 April 2004 16:07, Guolin Cheng wrote:
 
>  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..
>

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This became the default beginning with RH9.  In order to keep this 
from happening you have to configure your network interfaces using 
the entry:

NOZEROCONF=yes

See the archives for related discussions in the past.  


Regards, Mike Klinke