On Saturday, January 22, 2022 8:52:24 PM EST Lee wrote: > Hi Gene, > > On 1/21/22, gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > This is all well and good, Greg, but it still does NOT give a clue > > what todo when the system picks a fictitious route out of its rear. > Once you realize that that your machine getting a 169.254.x.x address > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-local_address > almost certainly means that DHCP has failed, you have a pretty good > idea of where to start - Why did my machine ask for a DHCP address? > Why didn't it get one? > Because there is not a running server on my local net, its all in the hosts file, and changing the hostname torpedo's the hosts file lookups.
zero-conf stuff to me has never been anything but a headache. > As for avahi, my notes have > disable multicast DNS (avahi-daemon) > $ sudo systemctl disable avahi-daemon > but I have a DHCP and DNS server at home, so I'd rather have the > zero-conf stuff turned off. > > Best Regards, > Lee Avahi, now that I do have things working again, has been removed. Totally. Thanks Lee, take care and stay well. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
