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Re: (ASCEND) Off topic - keepalives


On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, "Tony Ray"> wrote:
>I've noticed a lot of traffic on my net going to the 204.91.243.0 net. 
>These are very small UDP packets, all exactly alike.  Internic does not
>show 204.91.243.0 as belonging to anyone.  Conclusion, these are probably
>being sent by some popular keep-alive program meant to defeat my idle
>timeout.

Um, InterNIC proper doesn't keep track of IP addresses anymore... that's all
gone over to their puppet ARIN.

  $ whois -h whois.arin.net 204.91.243
  DIGEX, Inc. (NETBLK-NETBLK-DIGEX-BLK7)
     One Digex Plaza
     Beltsville, MD 20705

     Netname: NETBLK-DIGEX-BLK7
     Netblock: 204.91.0.0 - 204.91.255.255
     Maintainer: DIGX

     Coordinator:
        Hostmaster Role Account  (DIGEX2-ARIN)  dns@DIGEX.NET
        301.847.5000
  Fax- 301.847.5215

     Domain System inverse mapping provided by:

     NS.DIGEX.NET			164.109.1.3
     NS2.DIGEX.NET		164.109.10.23

     Record last updated on 21-Mar-97.
     Database last updated on 7-Mar-98 17:44:07 EDT.

  The ARIN Registration Services Host contains ONLY Internet
  Network Information: Networks, ASN's, and related POC's.
  Please use the whois server at rs.internic.net for DOMAIN related
  Information and nic.ddn.mil for MILNET Information.

>Does anyone know if I'm incorrect in this assumption?  I'd like to set a
>call filter so they will be ignored by the idle timer.  On the other hand,
>I don't want to kill someone's online game.

  $ host -a icq.mirabilis.com
  Trying null domain
  rcode = 0 (Success), ancount=12
  The following answer is not authoritative:
  icq.mirabilis.com	3582 IN	A	204.91.243.50
  icq.mirabilis.com	3582 IN	A	204.91.243.41
  icq.mirabilis.com	3582 IN	A	204.91.242.113
  icq.mirabilis.com	3582 IN	A	204.91.243.90
  icq.mirabilis.com	3582 IN	A	204.91.243.112
  icq.mirabilis.com	3582 IN	A	204.91.242.35
  icq.mirabilis.com	3582 IN	A	204.91.243.77
  icq.mirabilis.com	3582 IN	A	204.91.242.80
  icq.mirabilis.com	3582 IN	A	204.91.242.25
  icq.mirabilis.com	3582 IN	A	204.91.243.115
  icq.mirabilis.com	3582 IN	A	204.91.242.44
  icq.mirabilis.com	3582 IN	A	204.91.242.114
  For authoritative answers, see:
  MIRABILIS.com	38681 IN	NS	CHANG01.CHABANG.com
  MIRABILIS.com	38681 IN	NS	CHANG02.CHABANG.com
  Additional information:
  CHANG01.CHABANG.com	38681 IN	A	208.202.84.11
  CHANG02.CHABANG.com	38681 IN	A	208.202.84.12

Look familiar? :-)

>--Tony

-jhp

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