Comment 5 for bug 451607

The fix for bug 449143 introduces two problems.
The first one is 169.243.169.243 appears as the first address in the /etc/eucalyptus/eucalyptus-ipaddr.conf logic, so it is used as the cloud address if its already up, causing despair and desolation (this bug)
The second one is that "ifconfig eth0" will show up the link-local address only, as Dustin says in comment 2. I'm not sure exactly how nasty this is and what exact things is breaks, though. 169.254.0.0/16 is a link-local range, so assinging it link-local seems to be the right way of doing it.

I 'll commit a fix for /etc/eucalyptus/eucalyptus-ipaddr.conf so that it discards 169.243.169.243 as a valid cloud IP.

For the second part, its a direct consequence of the fix in bug 449143. So if its a real issue I'd suggest reopening that bug, revert that change, and discuss a better way to fix the issue there.