This is discussed in some detail in the "zero-conf" IDs; I don't know
that any are RFCs yet.
The intent is to mimic the "stateless autoconfiguration" in IPv6 in an
IPv4 world.
Regards,
Justin
On Friday, October 26, 2001, at 11:44 , Paul Hoffman / VPNC wrote:
Sorry to barge in with a technical, standards-related question. It
seems that there is a common practice that when a host asks for an
IPv4 address, such as through DHCP, but the host isn't attached to
the network, that the software gives it an address of 169.254.x.y. Is
this documented in any RFC? Should it be?
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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