Question

A technician is configuring a new workstation on the corporate LAN. The device receives an IPv4 address of 169.254.18.7 and cannot reach any internal servers or the internet, but it can still communicate with a few neighboring devices on the same physical segment. Other workstations on the network are getting addresses in the 10.0.5.x range. What is the MOST likely cause?

Accepted Answer

The workstation failed to obtain an address from the DHCP server and self-assigned an APIPA address

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The workstation was manually configured with a static public IP address

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The default gateway on the workstation is pointing to the wrong DNS server

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The subnet mask on the workstation is set to 255.255.255.0 instead of 255.0.0.0