Thanks for your comments, Tomas and Jeremy.
George On Saturday, 03-08-2024 at 19:43 jeremy ardley wrote: > > > On 3/8/24 17:26, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > It is not/for/ multicast IP, it/uses/ multicast for name resolution. > > In a nutshell [1], it sends a "DNS" request to the local network asking > > "who is called Fritz here?", and Fritz answers with its IP. So sys-non- > > admins don't have to set up a name server. > > To amplify on that, it is used in situations where there is no DHCP server. > > IPv4 clients will then automatically assign themselves an address from > 169.254.X.X/16 range (X.X is derived from the MAC address) > > They then multicast their hostname and IP address to everyone else on > the LAN using mDNS. > > It is not a Microsoft only standard. It is defined in RFC 3927, "Dynamic > Configuration of IPv4 Link-Local Addresses." > > It is used on a wide variety of hosts including Linux. > >
