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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 1221110" data-attributes="member: 24098">So many things can go wrong that can cause a computer (any computer) to default to an APIPA address, that this is absolutely no surprise to see a plethora of posts and opinions as to the cause.&nbsp; It's much like Googling the terms &quot;transmission problem Honda&quot;.&nbsp; Do transmissions problems happen in Hondas?&nbsp; Sure.&nbsp; But they happen in a lot of other vehicles too, and for a variety of different reasons.&nbsp; The same goes for any complex machine and a specific problem that can happen with such a machine.&nbsp; It doesn't make that machine is any less reliable, or more trouble-prone.I don't think DNS is coming into play yet.&nbsp; We're not that high up in the model.&nbsp; DNS simply converts human-friendly names to machine-friendly IP addresses.&nbsp; We've got the cart before the horse here, because we're not even trying to resolve DNS names yet - we don't even belong to a network properly at this point.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 1221110, member: 24098"] So many things can go wrong that can cause a computer (any computer) to default to an APIPA address, that this is absolutely no surprise to see a plethora of posts and opinions as to the cause. It's much like Googling the terms "transmission problem Honda". Do transmissions problems happen in Hondas? Sure. But they happen in a lot of other vehicles too, and for a variety of different reasons. The same goes for any complex machine and a specific problem that can happen with such a machine. It doesn't make that machine is any less reliable, or more trouble-prone. I don't think DNS is coming into play yet. We're not that high up in the model. DNS simply converts human-friendly names to machine-friendly IP addresses. We've got the cart before the horse here, because we're not even trying to resolve DNS names yet - we don't even belong to a network properly at this point. [/QUOTE]

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