On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Mike Kellenberger <mike.kellenberger@escapenet.ch> wrote:

Hi

Hi :)

One of our customers got a .255 IPv4 address assigned by sunrise. I know
that this can be a valid host address with a netmask of /23 or greater,
but the strange thing is, that he can't reach any of our Windows Server
2003 hosts with this IP. Windows Server 2008 Servers in the same subnet
are no problem...

Does anybody know of such a problem? Mr. Google couldn't give me any
satisfactory results... :-)

Yes - Especially Windows machines seem to have a problem with .255 or .0, for that reason we have an exception in our DHCP-Daemon to exclude them.

Regards,
Mario