Do you use IE on the toy OS and did you set it to auto-detect any proxy settings? If so, it's probably testing to see if it can talk to the Internet without requiring some kind of settings alteration. "der.hans" wrote: > > moin, moin, > > logging some traffic at work and I'm noticing traffic coming in from the > net for various ports for 255.255.255.255. I'm thinking this is not > good. Shouldn't these be cut down by every service provider along the > way? Is there a reason I need to let these hit my network? > > Also what's the nameserver on port 42? I've got a mickeysquash box trying > to contact that. DNS aka nameserver uses 53, and I've never heard of it > using 42. Those packets are destined for multicast addy 224.0.1.24, which > seems to be some multicast mickeyschrott thing. It's listed as > microsoft-ds. Is that their death star? Should I be worried about this box > contacting the mothership? > > ciao, > > der.hans > -- > # der.hans@LuftHans.com home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.YourCompanyHere.net ;-) > # Practice socially consious hedonism. Do whatever you want, > # as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. - der.hans > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior