So I am very very new to working in IT and I hope that it's ok to post this here? I was working on deploying new PCs into some offices last night. We had a block of 4 PCs that weren't often used but needed to be replaced anyway. None of them would join the network. Although it's above my pay grade, I thought I see if I could work out what was wrong. I saw that all of them had APIPA addresses and I was able to ping the other machines as I might expect. On the wallpaper, they had the network stats, which showed a DHCP address. However could that have been set when the machines were built and they weren't actually seeing the DHCP server?
The team lead asked me to phone it, they logged it and I got a call back. She asked for the IP address and said even if it had a 169.x.x.x she should be able to see it. However, she kept saying 192 which made me wonder. As I said I'm totally new to this, so wasn't going to start questioning it and it wasn't what we were there to do. Is it possible that you could see machines with an APIPA address if you aren't on site? It's not something I needed to know last night, but it's bugging me. I'm only studying for CompTIA stuff at the moment and basically just plug cables in for work, but it's interesting to see this stuff in the real world.
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