Question

A technician is troubleshooting a workstation that cannot reach any network resources or the internet. Running ipconfig shows the computer has an IP address of 169.254.18.92 with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 and no default gateway listed. Other computers on the same subnet are working normally. What is the MOST likely cause of this issue?

Accepted Answer

The workstation could not obtain an address from the DHCP server and assigned itself an APIPA address

Answer

The workstation has been manually configured with a static public IP address

Answer

The DNS server settings on the workstation are incorrect

Answer

The workstation is using an IPv6 link-local address instead of IPv4