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> Jonathan Sprague wrote:
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> > I'm running a linux/Samba server with diald and ipfwadm to diald my isp
> > and provide an internet link for my home network. I had problems with
> > diald dialing every few minutes when I first set it up but I got that
> > straightened out ( I think). Now my server keeps dialing up and looking
> > for 208.147.89.103 which I did an nslookup for and it couldn't find it.
> > Why is it doing this? I did a tcpdump (which I only partly understand)
> > and here it is;
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> > 16:01:34.713953 server.home.61030 > 208.147.89.103.http: S 98307369:9830736
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I did a little snooping on this, and it APPEARS to me that what is going on is
this system is attempting to connect to a real video/audio/??? system in the
Sattle, WA, USA, area. This is just a guess, as I didn't take this too far,
but this may provide a hint.
I started with a "whois -h whois.arin.net 208.147.89" and got:
MCI Internet Services (NETBLK-MCI-NETBLK10) MCI-NETBLK10
208.128.0.0 - 208.171.255.255
PROGRESSIVE NETWORKS (NETBLK-MCI-208-147-89) MCI-208-147-89
208.147.89.0 - 208.147.95.255
When I looked on the internic for "PROGRESSIVE NETWORKS", a name with whih I am
not too familiar I got a bunch of references to real*.com names.
I hope that this helps some,
dlg
