[plug] Another network question (detailed answer plus bonus anecdote)

[Denis Brown]

At 12:24 10/06/2003 +0800, Leon wrote:
>On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:51, Derek Fountain wrote:
> > What does this do?:
>
> > ifconfig lo:1 10.0.1.1

<snip interesting technical stuff>

>This leads me to an anecdote: a friend of mine uses MS-Windows XP. One day,
>his laptop spontaneously decided that the loopback interface should no longer
>have a fixed address, but obtain one automatically (ie, through DHCP if
>possible, else pick one at random from the 169.254.0.0/16 network); so it
>did.

ROFL   I've only touched one XP Pro box and that's one too many.  TGFL

Denis