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| message from John Leonard - Sage on 9 Jun 2004 |
Using a Dell system and WinXP professional.
I am told by Dell that XP has a problem with setting the IP address
169.254.162.104 and will not release and renew it?
I am in the process of formating and re-installing everything again. Dell
tells me it will fix the problem???
Does anyone have input on this problem and how to fix it?
Thanks
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| Chuck replied to John Leonard - Sage on 9 Jun 2004 |
John,
Addresses in the subnet 169.254.0.0/16 are APIPA addresses - they are assigned
by a computer, to itself, when it is setup for auto-configuration, but cannot
contact a DHCP server.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3BQ220874
Do you have a DHCP server on your LAN? For home networks this would usually be
a NAT router. For enterprise networks, you will probably have a dedicated box,
or possibly a router or domain controller also provides DHCP.
And John, please don't contribute to the spread and success of email address
mining viruses. Learn to munge your email address properly, to keep yourself a
bit safer when posting to open forums. Protect yourself and the rest of the
internet - never post your address unmunged.
http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
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| David Candy replied to Chuck on 10 Jun 2004 |
You lying cheat. You must be a pedophile wanting to hide away. The =
f*cking arrogrance of you.
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| Dr. Feelgood replied to David Candy on 09 Jun 2004 |
Someone get the guys in white jackets. David's off his meds again.
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| David Candy replied to Dr. Feelgood on 10 Jun 2004 |
And John, please don't contribute to the spread and success of email =
address
mining viruses. Learn to munge your email address properly, to keep =
yourself a
bit safer when posting to open forums. Protect yourself and the rest of =
the
internet - never post your address unmunged.
Then why bother having an email address. These criminals keep coming =
here and advocating their criminal behaviour as a model for others to =
follow.
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| Chuck replied to David Candy on 9 Jun 2004 |
David,
A long time ago, when the internet was new and everybody was idealistic,
including your email address in your Usenet posts was the thing to do. Like
having your computer respond to Ping (so everybody could tell when you're
online), respond to Finger (so everybody could tell who you are), or, if you run
an email server, you'd routinely relay email for anybody sending to somebody
else. All simply because it was expected of you, as an internet citizen.
Those days are long gone.
Now, anybody foolish enough to post their email address on Usenet will soon get
email they don't want. And not related to the nature of the Usenet group that
they post into either.
But, it gets worse.
Those who make their email address available on Usenet to the address scraping,
mass mailing worms, will get email with the next worm attached. Those foolish
enough to open one of the worm infested attachments will become yet another host
sending the worm onward.
And worse yet, an infected host becomes another spam relay. So the rest of us,
who can prevent our own systems from becoming infected thru Defense In Depth,
will still have to wade thru another increase of spam in our Inboxes. Or in our
Bulk folders, while we ensure that no wanted email wrongly ended up in Bulk.
And those of us who can protect ourselves, but encourage the clueless to expose
themselves to the email worms, are part of the problem. And we all suffer for
it.
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
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| David Candy replied to Chuck on 10 Jun 2004 |
Ignore criminals (that is the authors of spam/viruses). That's my =
answer. People giving in to terror on the internet affect ME. Plus I get =
all your spam and viruses as well as my fair share of them.
Send them to gaol (jail in americian). That's the correct answer. But =
the US insists on a lawless internet.
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| John Leonard - Sage replied to Chuck on 9 Jun 2004 |
Thanks Chuck
I do not have a DHCP Server or NAT. I am just a standalone home system,
trying to access the internet.
I'll read this article and try what it recommends.
Any quick fix?
"Chuck" <none@example.net> wrote in message
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| Chuck replied to John Leonard - Sage on 9 Jun 2004 |
John,
Did you configure your computer based upon specs from your ISP? Who is that?
How is your computer connected physically?
Either:
1) Your service is fixed ip, but you configured for dynamic;
2) Your service uses dynamic ip, but you're not connecting, or the DHCP server
that your ISP provides isn't working.
Did you contact your ISP for help yet? If so, what did they say?
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
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| John Leonard - Sage replied to Chuck on 11 Jun 2004 |
Chuck
Looks like there are some crack pots on News. It takes all kinds!
I found my problem - a bad NIC card. Replaced it and all it well now.
Thanks for you help.
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| Chuck replied to John Leonard - Sage on 11 Jun 2004 |
John,
Yep - never boring on Usenet!
Glad you found your problem. Thanks for updating us.
Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
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