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During a infrastructure review of a newly provisioned branch office segment, an administrator discovers that client workstations are failing to access internal corporate web applications. A diagnostic command on an affected client reveals an IPv4 address of 169.254.14.88169.254.14.88 with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0255.255.0.0. When the administrator manually assigns a static IP address (10.20.30.50/2410.20.30.50/24) and default gateway (10.20.30.110.20.30.1), the client can successfully ping internal servers by IP address, but attempts to connect using fully qualified domain names (FQDNs) fail. Which of the following server role issues is the primary cause of the client initially acquiring the 169.254.x.x169.254.x.x address?

  1. The DHCP server role is unreachable or failing to respond to client discovery requests, causing clients to assign themselves an APIPA address.Cevap
  2. B
    The DNS server role is offline, which prevents client network adapters from obtaining dynamic IP address scope configurations upon link startup.
  3. C
    The APIPA service host has encountered a critical runtime error, forcing the local network interface card to default to a public routable IP address.
  4. D
    The Syslog server host is actively blocking incoming UDP port 67 traffic required for client domain name lookup requests.

Cevap

The DHCP server role is unreachable or failing to respond to client discovery requests, causing clients to assign themselves an APIPA address.
When a client computer set to acquire an IP address automatically receives no response from a DHCP server, it generates an APIPA link-local address in the 169.254.0.0/16169.254.0.0/16 range. The primary failure causing the client to acquire an APIPA address is the unavailability or unreachability of the DHCP server role.

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1
Analyze the client network configuration output (169.254.14.88169.254.14.88 with mask 255.255.0.0255.255.0.0).
Identify that the client has auto-configured an APIPA (Automatic Private IP Addressing) address.
APIPA addresses in the range 169.254.0.0/16169.254.0.0/16 indicate the host attempted to request an IP configuration via DHCP but received no response.
2
Evaluate the effect of manual static IP assignment.
Static IP configuration (10.20.30.50/2410.20.30.50/24) restores Layer 3 IP connectivity to internal network servers.
This confirms that physical link connectivity and routing are functional, isolating the problem to host service availability.
3
Correlate the secondary symptom (failure to resolve domain names by FQDN).
Confirm that without a functional DHCP server, clients do not automatically receive DNS server IP options, leading to name resolution failures unless statically configured.
DHCP is responsible for delivering both IP leases and network service option parameters (such as primary/secondary DNS server addresses) to hosts.

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DHCP Server Role and APIPA Address Generation
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