Who is on my network???

[andycrofts]

I'm following another thread, and I did a netstat -rn (never used the command before....
I get:
[root@oululife andy]# netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface

212.50.132.10 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 212.50.132.10 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0

[root@oululife andy]#

Who the bloody hell is the 169...IP??? How can I find out??? Noone I recognise!

[Gantrep]

Sorry, that was me testing your security.

Just kidding. From RFC 3330:

169.254.0.0/16 - This is the "link local" block. It is allocated for
communication between hosts on a single link. Hosts obtain these
addresses by auto-configuration, such as when a DHCP server may not
be found. (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3330.html)

In other words, it's nobody.

[andycrofts]

Many thanks!
I'm a little more relieved
-Andy

[blobaugh]

Another thing to think about is that 169. is a private ip. Someone coming from outside would more than likely have a public ip.

Way to go Gantrep. I never heard about that before.