Re: SOLVED! Re: Sid: Really strange network address stuff

[Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>]

Curt Howland wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On Wednesday 23 August 2006 10:27, Scott Reese 
> <sreese@indianaheart.org> was heard to say:
> > You may have zeroconf installed (one of the desktop packages
> > recommends it for no good reason).  Purge it. 
>
> Sure enough, zeroconf was installed. It is now purged, and the DHCP 
> address is remaining the one retrieved by DHCP.
>
> Many thanks! I hope the other folks with this problem see this email.

I've seen a number of people burned by this.
Can the installation come with a large red label
'WARNING: Real life dead unboned frog'
or something to that effect to avoid this confusion in the future?