APIPA

English

Noun

APIPA (uncountable)

1. (Internet) Initialism of automatic private IP addressing: a safety mechanism in dynamic host client processing to assign IP addresses within a given range when the main DHCP mechanism fails.

References

• https://web.archive.org/web/20150620024157/http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/protocolsdhcp/g/bldef_apipa.htm