Server Down - How should Client Act?

Holger Honert holger.honert at signal-iduna.org
Tue May 2 13:19:20 UTC 2006


Hi,

ever heard about zeroconf-network, apipa, multicast-dns etc ??

Regards

Holger

PS: Apple/MAC use to say "Bonjour" or "Rendezvous" network

Melody Helt schrieb:
> What is a link local address?
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>> From: Douglas Armstrong <doug at ovationdata.com>
>> Reply-To: dhcp-users at isc.org
>> To: dhcp-users at isc.org
>> Subject: Re: Server Down - How should Client Act?
>> Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 13:08:10 -0500
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>>  The Linux dhclient (isc-dhclient-V3.0.2-RedHat)  will go to a link local
>> address if no server responds.
>> Doug Armstrong
>> www.ovationdata.com[1]
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>> Ted Lemon wrote: On Monday 01 May 2006 10:36, David W. Hankins wrote: But
>> some clients choose to adopt link local addresses and give up on DHCP
>> entirely until something jars it back into operation. I don't know of any
>> correctly-functioning clients that do this. Most of the ones I know of keep
>> trying, albeit at fairly long intervals. If a client gives up and never
>> triesagain, it's probably a bug.
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>> --- Links ---
>>    1 http://www.ovationdata.com
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