On Tuesday 20 April 2004 16:07, Guolin Cheng wrote: > I got an additional entry when I run "netstat -rn" on my fedora > host, an "169.254.0.0 ..." entry appears without being invited. I > know that 169.254.0.0/16 is a private address block for some kind > of special purposes, and it appears in "ifup" script, But my > question is: what does this entry mean? And How to get rid of it > if it does nothing except bring security holes? Since it is > routable now through my hosts' exneral interface, ridicules.. > www.zeroconf.org This became the default beginning with RH9. In order to keep this from happening you have to configure your network interfaces using the entry: NOZEROCONF=yes See the archives for related discussions in the past. Regards, Mike Klinke
