On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 01:53:11PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: > > Earlier, I was looking at old threads in my mail archive and found a > neat way to get the IP address from a shell script, but in trying it I > noticed - hey that's *not* my IP address! I've had static IP here on a > DSL line since December 2000, and my IP address has always been the > same. I don't yet fool around with IP masquerading, which is possibly > what it could be. > > Here's what 'ifconfig eth0' reports currently: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:94:B7:53:84 > inet addr:169.254.162.234 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.0.0
I think this is from the zerconf package which may have been inadvertently installed. You can probably purge it. A > > And mine is (and has been for 5 years): > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 198.144.206.157 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > > Pinging them both works - traceroute ditto. Doesn't seem to be a diff > there, as far as connectivity goes. But where did this "extra" IP > address come from in the first place? I did a grep for it on /etc, it > does not seem to be there. > > Furthermore, that IP per whois belongs to > > OrgName: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority > OrgID: IANA > Address: 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330 > City: Marina del Rey > StateProv: CA > PostalCode: 90292-6695 > Country: US > > They've reserved the entire 169.254.*.* block, it seems. > > So, I'm thinking, maybe it's a dynamic IP address, but I have no use > for that here. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > David E. Fox Thanks for letting me > [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns > [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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