Re: Packets to 224.0.1.24 (II)
* P. Ook <"p..ook"@lycos.es> [10-10-02 01:35]:
> I've just installed a Woody Debian box with an ipchains firewall and I can see a lot
> of syslog entries (3 entries per hour) like this:
>
> ---- 8< ----
> Oct 9 22:18:25 myhost kernel: Packet log: input - eth0 PROTO=17
> a.b.c.d:42 224.0.1.24:42 L=47 S=0x00 I=27053 F=0x0000 T=2 (#19)
> ---- 8< ----
>
> Can anyone explain me why are my machine trying to send packets to
> 224.0.1.24(MICROSOFT-DS.MCAST.NET)? May be it's due to a package I've installed in
> this machine?
Do you have Windows-Hosts in your network?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q151761
WINS Server Sends IGMP Packets on Startup
When you start up the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) on Windows
NT, it automatically sends IGMP packets to multicast address
224.0.1.24
HTH
Jens
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