David L. Gehrt wrote:
>
> >
> > Jonathan Sprague wrote:
> >
> > > 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;
> >
> > > 16:01:34.713953 server.home.61030 > 208.147.89.103.http: S 98307369:9830736
> 9(0)
> <snip>
>
> 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,
I think you've got it! I'll have to research more but my son downloaded
RealPlayer to his win95 machine the other day. HHmmmmm, what could it
be?
