FWIW, a while ago one of the Mac laptop mailing lists I subscribe to had some discussion about a backdoor someone found in their Belkin router, by which Belkin tech support (and anyone else with the trick) could see what the user was doing on his computer. I'm pretty sure it was a wireless router, since that's when I removed Belkin from my "possible wireless purchases" list, but don't recall for sure.
Also, maybe someone was connecting into your wireless, and then getting to the G5? I'm not using Panther yet, but I would expect it to tell who all is connected (like OS9 :-) did) to the G5. re the specific IP, I did a whois search at ARIN, http://www.arin.net/tools/whois_help.html, and got: Search results for: 254.246.96.138 OrgName: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority OrgID: IANA Address: 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330 City: Marina del Rey StateProv: CA PostalCode: 90292-6695 Country: US NetRange: 240.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255 CIDR: 240.0.0.0/4 NetName: RESERVED-240 NetHandle: NET-240-0-0-0-0 Parent: NetType: IANA Special Use Comment: Please see RFC 3330 for additional information. RegDate: Updated: 2002-10-14 OrgAbuseHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN OrgAbuseName: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number OrgAbusePhone: +1-310-301-5820 OrgAbuseEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OrgTechHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN OrgTechName: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number OrgTechPhone: +1-310-301-5820 OrgTechEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2004-08-01 19:10 # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database. On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Andrew Janjigian wrote: > I've been demoing LittleSnitch on my laptop (G4 12"), and whenever I > try to connect to my G5 to mount drives remotely, it says "Finder wants > to connect to 254.246.96.138". . . . > it go. But today I denied connection, and my drive mounted anyway. And > when I disconnected the G5 once after having allowed the connection, it > said _2_ users were remotely connected, when (I thought) that just my > laptop was connecting. . . . > So, do I have somebody hacking into my machine, or spyware waiting for > me to do a remote connection, or is this some aspect of Panther I just > don't understand well enough? > > I should mention that I have a Belkin 802.11g router with a firewall, > and the two computers are connected to the network over Airport Extreme > cards. . . . _______________________________________________ Littlesnitch-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://at.obdev.at/mailman/listinfo/littlesnitch-talk
