Re: Odd spurious IP addr in ifconfig

2006-05-05 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 01:53:11PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: | | Earlier, I was looking at old threads in my mail archive and found a | neat way to get the IP address from a shell script, but in trying it I | noticed - hey that's *not* my IP address! I've had static IP here on a | DSL line since

Re: Odd spurious IP addr in ifconfig

2006-04-09 Thread Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I think this is from the zerconf package which may have been inadvertently installed. You can probably purge it. Is it possible to permanently blacklist a package from being installed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Odd spurious IP addr in ifconfig

2006-04-09 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 23:09:40 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This kind of problem is usually due to a nasty little package called > "zeroconf". It often gets installed inadvertently and then it messes Sure enough, it got installed. Took your advice; hopefully it will work - whi

Re: Odd spurious IP addr in ifconfig

2006-04-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 01:53:11PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: > > Earlier, I was looking at old threads in my mail archive and found a > neat way to get the IP address from a shell script, but in trying it I > noticed - hey that's *not* my IP address! I've had static IP here on a > DSL line since

Re: Odd spurious IP addr in ifconfig

2006-04-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
David E. Fox wrote: Earlier, I was looking at old threads in my mail archive and found a neat way to get the IP address from a shell script, but in trying it I noticed - hey that's *not* my IP address! I've had static IP here on a DSL line since December 2000, and my IP address has always been th