[sane-devel] network scanning quit working

[Perry Hutchison]

"Glenn Golden" <gdg at zplane.com> wrote:

> Hi Perry,
>
>  On 2020-12-03 4:48 p.m., Perry Hutchison wrote:
> > 
> > I thought it was; it even has a reserved IP address (192.168.0.10) in
> > the DHCP server (Netgear router).
>  
> Question: Since the last time it worked properly and now, had you
> by any chance enabled avahi, zeroconf, or any other similarly
> "helpful" auto-IP-config service daemons?  Those services often
> assign addresses in the  169.254.*.*  range.

Not knowingly.  It's conceivable, but I think unlikely, that some
Ubuntu update quietly enabled something like that -- but I suspect
it was just a matter of the scanner having recovered from a power
failure faster than the DHCP server.  I power-cycled the scanner
earlier today and it reported having gotten its normal IP address back.