[Gllug] Routing table - help

[John Winters]

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 13:45 +0100, Steve Nelson wrote:
> 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.

*Linux* has!?  Surely you mean some particular distribution has put this
in to their default configuration?  None of my Linux boxes has it, and I
haven't taken it out.

John

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