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? _______________________________________________ Littlesnitch-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://at.obdev.at/mailman/listinfo/littlesnitch-talk
