BSD XXI Manifesto [mDNS proposal]

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

On Feb 27, 2014, at 12:20 PM, Matthew Rezny <matthew at reztek.cz> wrote:

> If IPv4LL is in active use, the DHCP 
> client should continue to periodically look for a DHCP server and obtain a 
> lease without manual user intervention (which is unfortunately required on 
> both OS X and Windows, leading to sub-optimal experience in cases of temporary 
> unavailability of the DHCP server).

That's not true for Mac OS.  If you have an interface configured to use DHCP, and the Mac is unable to renew the lease, it will automatically configure a 169.254.x.y address on the interface.  All the while it continues its attempts to renew the DHCP lease and, once successful, removes the 169.254.x.y address from the interface.

--lyndon
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