После переконфигурации DHCP сервера на тему привязки IP к MAC произошло следующее:

dhcpcd[4278]: eth0: renewing lease of 10.1.1.209
dhcpcd[4278]: eth0: received NAK: requested address is incorrect
dhcpcd[4278]: eth0: broadcasting for a lease
dhcpcd[4278]: eth0: offered 10.1.1.144 from 10.1.0.1
dhcpcd[4278]: eth0: checking 10.1.1.144 is available on attached networks
dhcpcd[4278]: eth0: leased 10.1.1.144 for 28800 seconds
dhcpcd[4278]: eth0: removing route to 169.254.0.0/16 metric 0
dhcpcd[4278]: eth0: adding IP address 10.1.1.144/23
dhcpcd[4278]: eth0: removing IP address 10.1.1.209/23
dhcpcd[4278]: eth0: adding default route via 10.1.0.1 metric 0
dhcpcd[4278]: eth0: netlink: Network is unreachable
dhcpcd[4278]: eth0: adding route to 169.254.0.0/16 metric 0
dhcpcd[4278]: eth0: netlink: No such device
dhcpcd[4278]: eth0: Failed to lookup hostname via DNS: Temporary failure in name
resolution
dhcpcd.sh: interface eth0 has been configured with new IP=10.1.1.144
dhcpcd[4278]: eth0: received SIGHUP, releasing lease
dhcpcd[4278]: eth0: removing default route via 10.1.0.1 metric 0
dhcpcd[4278]: eth0: netlink: No such process
dhcpcd[4278]: eth0: removing IP address 10.1.1.144/23
dhcpcd[4278]: eth0: netlink: Cannot assign requested address
dhcpcd[4278]: eth0: exiting
dhcpcd.sh: interface eth0 has been brought down

После чего машина перестала быть доступна вообще.  dhcpcd-3.2.3-alt0.2.

P.S. Зачем нужен роут на 169.254.0.0/16?