On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 06:50:46PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:08:45 -0500 > Tom Pfeifer <tpfeife1@optonline.net> wrote: > > > Again, everything looks and works normally excecpt for the strange IP > > address. Just hoping someone can explain or provide a link to some > > information - thanks...(maybe this is related to IPv6 ?) > > These addresses are usually assigned by the zeroconf package. You can > (should) purge that. > > Regards, Hi Andrei, it seems enough people do an install and have this problem that the answer has become know to the debian-user list. Now I know very little about zeroconf but it seems to me that it would be better to _not_ have it installed and allow those folks who need it to install it then to have newbies not have proper networking when they finish an install. Opinions? cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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