On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 04:12:40PM +0000, Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
> At 9:56 -0500 2003/01/30, Richard Welty wrote:
> >it never really got anywhere, and the only real evidence of its existence
> >is the obscure M$ default when no DHCP server answers.
>
>
> It is also used by MacOS both in its "Classic" and UNIX flavour, and
> presumably also Darwin. Sun Microsystems is in the committee too.
> The latest draft is of 23/09/2002, so I do not know what do you mean
> with "it never really got anywhere".
> The important point though is that 169.254/16 should not be used as
> yet another private network, it is *private to zeroconf*.
Just for reference, they are all sorts of networks people should
not use arbitrarily:
http://ftp.heanet.ie/rfc/rfc3330.txt
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