Noun
APIPA (uncountable)
(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.
Filling the void, Microsoft created an implementation that is called Automatic Private IP Addressing ( APIPA ). Source: Internet
APIPA has been deployed on millions of machines and has, thus, become a de facto standard in the industry. Source: Internet