[Cialug] DNS Issues

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i got that crazy 169 stuff to. (fedora core 4)


[root at datastor ~]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use 
Iface
192.168.0.0   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
0.0.0.0         192.168.0.1   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

ajeffri at loopysite.org wrote:

>On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 07:04:30PM -0500, Stuart Thiessen wrote:
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>>I do not have any network on 169.254.0.0.  Could it be that all of my 
>>traffic is going to 169.254.0.0?  Would that be able to find the 
>>gateway?  If 169.254.0.0 is representing my alias address, then I am 
>>confused because I did set the alias address with an address local to 
>>the 192.168.0.0 network. I can ping it and such with the designated 
>>192.168.0.xxx address.
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>169.254.0.0/16 is the address range that Windows uses when it can't find an address
>via DHCP. I don't know what it's doing in your Linux routing table, however.
>Maybe it's a case of the distro trying to be helpful.
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>I just ran route -n on a box of mine that has aliases, and they don't show
>up there. They will always show up in the output of ifconfig -a as something
>like eth0:0 for the first alias, eth0:1 for the second, etc. and the real
>interface as eth0.
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