I don't know any of the mainframe conventions and others here will, but my
first question would be for clarification of what they mean by 'traffic'.

Is it protocol UDP or TCP or some other, if it's TCP is it simply SYN
packets (at the start of a TCP connection) without response, or is there a
whole sequence for a TCP connection and stream of data? What ports are the
source and destination?

'Traffic' without a port or even a protocol name (or number) is about as
vague as they can be :-)

Rupert

On Mon, 23 Dec 2019, 08:32 Jake Anderson, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Rupert
>
> I understand but any clue why it has traffic with Mainframe IP when it is
> not even listening on any application
>
> On Mon, 23 Dec, 2019, 12:28 PM Rupert Reynolds, <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > 0.0.0.0 is a special "no address" or "any address", depending on context.
> >
> > If a listening server socket binds to 0.0.0.0 then it listens on any
> > interfaces present, which might be two adaptors with addresses
> > 192.168.something and 10.something, for example.
> >
> > 0.0.0.0 is non-routable and a typical use in traffic would be in DHCP, in
> > which an adaptor doesn't have an address assigned yet and the device
> sends
> > out a DHCP request from 0.0.0.0 asking to be assigned a proper address.
> >
> > I'd ask for clarification, myself :-)
> >
> > On Mon, 23 Dec 2019, 07:53 Jake Anderson, <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > Cross posted
> > >
> > > Out network vulnerability team has reported that there is a traffic
> > between
> > > 0.0.0.0 and LPAR IP.
> > >
> > > Does it mean 0.0.0.0 listen to all address and make server open to
> > internet
> > > ?
> > >
> > > I believe 0.0.0.0 belongs to BPXOINIT(OMVS)
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Jake
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