[Gllug] Routing table - help

[Steve Nelson]

On 5/17/06, TM <tm at tm.uklinux.net> wrote:

> I'm very green in the matters of network admin and I don't really understand the
> line with the 169.254.0.0 address(es). Does it mean that someone got into the
> router? Or am I sharing the desktop with some hacker as I type this message?

This is a route for "zero configuration networking".

Linux has had a 169.254.0.0/16 route in the routing table for a very
long time, and disabling it is one of the first things you read in a
'hardening linux' article.

To remove the route, add the line "NOZEROCONF=yes" to
/etc/sysconfig/network and restart networking.

> TM

S.
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