Cable IP's going into the 169.* range? or is something up..?

[Mr.Guvernment 0]

IGNORE!!! ...lol - friend read off to me the internal NIC cards address...LOL not the one connected to the modem

 

 

 

but incase u wanted to read what i posted!..lol

 

Hey all

 

recently i use remote access to get to my server back home - it is on Rogers cable and they usually use 24.* and i think now 69.* as ip ranges.

 

Now, recently i discovered that they have change the Ip address to 169.* which belongs to:

 

Code:

 

Server used for this query: [ whois.arin.net ]

 

OrgName: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

OrgID: IANA

 

NetRange: 169.254.0.0 - 169.254.255.255

CIDR: 169.254.0.0/16

NetName: LINKLOCAL

NetHandle: NET-169-254-0-0-1

Parent: NET-169-0-0-0-0

NetType: IANA Special Use

NameServer: BLACKHOLE-1.IANA.ORG

NameServer: BLACKHOLE-2.IANA.ORG

Comment: Please see RFC 3330 for additional information.

RegDate: 1998-01-27

Updated: 2002-10-14

 

OrgTechHandle: IANA-ARIN

OrgTechName: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number

OrgTechPhone: +1-310-823-9358

OrgTechEmail: res-ip@iana.org

 

# ARIN Whois database, last updated 2002-11-21 19:05

# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's Whois database.

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOw, this seems weird to me beause here in the Caribbean, where i have a Dial up account - about a week ago when i dialed out - i SWORE i was connected to a 169.* IP address as well (i was testing a forum and needed to know the ip address)

 

 

Sp - is something up? is this 169. ip range a "spy" range that they put people onto for a while? Or what exactly is it and why would someone on cable be using that IP and someone on dial up be able to go through that IP range as well?

 

To me it seems somethign is up and i almost do not want to connect to my server until this changes.

 

(my dial up account has since gone back to it's regualr 208.* ip range)

 

 

Any input??[/list:u]