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RE: netbios scanning coming from IANA's internal class B...?


From: William Enestvedt <wenestvedt () jwu edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 08:37:35 -0400


You will find that Microsoft machines that are booting 
up and looking for their DHCP server (but unable to 
find it) will be given an IP address on [the 
169.254.x.x] network.

   Macs, too, I believe, with recent Mac OS istalls (though I don't know
about OS X for certain).
-wde
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Will Enestvedt
UNIX System Administrator
Johnson & Wales University


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