pilot error? or idiots at microsoft?

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 08/12/2011 07:53 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:
> On Aug 12, 2011, at 7:49 AM, Mark Martinec wrote:
>>> in fact, any connection to amavis from 169* would be strange...
>>> unless your laptop also did not get a good ip and pulled a 169*
>>> address.
>> 
>> Yes. It would be unusual, although not impossible.
> 
> It has become "best practice" to route 169 on enterprise networks so
> that a host which has a DHCP problem can still reach internal
> things.
> 
> Note: Not my "best practice". I believe that problems should
> highlight themselves to get fixed.  But the mentality is very
> different for many IT groups.
> 

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