Benno Goedhart wrote:
Mike Hogsett 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..
It means you have an additional network card, without an active
connection. The card tries to retrieve an IP address from a DHCP
server which is supposedly not present. Then this address will be
assigned to it.
I don't think that is the case. In my situation the machine has a single
network card, eth0, with static addressing, yet there is indeed the route
to 169.254/16 out eth0. This is what the OP was questioning.
Let me rephrase that. I wasn't paying attention. You're right.
