[Cialug] DNS Issues

[ajeffri at loopysite.org]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 07:04:30PM -0500, Stuart Thiessen wrote:
> 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.

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.

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.

-- 
Tony Jeffries