-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 11:07:04AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
[...] Addendum: elsewhere in this thread, Avahi was mentioned. You'll find this guy[1] in the same Wikipedia ref under "link local" addresses (169.254.0.0/16). Those are "fairly normal" IP addresses, just that the so-configured hosts will just grab them without you, the admin, having given them permission to do so. Cheers [1] This is an oversimplification. Link local addresses are part of zeroconf, and avahi is (part of) zeroconf's implementation. So they are rather cousins, like Scylla [2] and Charybdis [3] [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charybdis - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlnTVgQACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYUVACfYTgAq0uLX9C8MofB+qZlIRE8 LbYAn0j52IhlU6eoe8yEeDq9MMaTReRV =d9tb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
