[8396] in bugtraq
Re: Pointcast and destination IP 1.1.1.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (pedward@WEBCOM.COM)
Wed Nov 4 13:39:57 1998
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 14:48:30 -0800
Reply-To: pedward@WEBCOM.COM
From: pedward@WEBCOM.COM
X-To: chouanard@parc.xerox.com
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981030133938.00ae7550@mailback.parc.xerox.com> from "Jean
Chouanard" at Oct 30, 98 01:46:44 pm
They are checking to see if they have net connectivity, because it can run
in offline mode. If you try to send a packet to an unreachable host, you'll
get an ICMP unreachable -> EXXXX socket error.
--Perry
>
> Sniffing the network I can see this strange behavior:
> Each time a PC client is starting a pointcast update, it will send packets
> with a destination IP address of 1.1.1.1
> The destination port is 12345, 1 or 8080
> The source port varies
>
> I have look at the pointcast knowledge-db wo/ finding anything
>
> Anyone have any idea on that?
>
> Thanks,
> - jean -
>
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