Question

A technician is called to a workstation that cannot reach any network resources or the internet. Running ipconfig shows the machine has an IPv4 address of 169.254.14.72 with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 and no default gateway listed. Other devices on the same LAN are working normally. What is the MOST likely cause?

Accepted Answer

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

Answer

The workstation was manually configured with a static address from the private 10.0.0.0/8 range

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The DNS server assigned an incorrect address during name resolution

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The router is performing NAT and translated the workstation's address incorrectly