You're asking for an intro lesson in networking :-) .  There are
a few online, I don't recall the url's, google search like
networking introduction and so on.  As for intro books, browse
like Borders or Barnes & Noble or some other good bookstore's
computing shelves.  Take a look at the www.oreilly.com site, too.

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Terry Mickelson wrote:

>
> On 6-Mar-04, at 8:09 PM, Tom R. no spam wrote:
>
> > Hhmmm, seems you have opportunity to thank Little Snitch for doing
> > exactly what it's supposed to do, warn you every time something's
> > trying to send info out from your computer.  Your "nmbd" probably is
> > a NetBIOS Window$ networking message, so maybe you could think of
> > LS as alerting to you to shut off that functionality?  (NetBIOS can
> > send out frequent like "Who else is here?" messages, which I'm
> > assuming is what you are seeing.)
> >
> I'd like to know what some of the other things mean:
>
> Any application               Allow TCP connections to multicast address
>
> What's a multicast address?
> What's a broadcast address?
>
> I have:
> confifd               Allow IPV6-ICMP connections
>                       Deny any connection
> (seems like a contradiction of terms here)
>
> host          Allow UDP connections to port 53 (domain)
>
> There are more of course; UDP, ntpd, slpd, RAW and all the various
> ports. Is there an explanation somewhere that tells us what these are,
> why they are there and what settings we should use?
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