255.255.255.255 and multicast

[Digital Wokan]

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
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