On 2014/05/23 18:38, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> On 05/23/2014 06:17 PM, jdow wrote:
>> On 2014/05/23 14:25, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>>> On 05/23/2014 02:08 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote:
>>>> On 23 May 2014 22:02, ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there some special meaning (like 127.0.0.1.) to
>>>>> the following IP address?
>>>>>
>>>>>      224.0.0.251
>>>>>
>>>>> Many thanks,
>>>>> -T
>>>>
>>>> It is an IP Multicast address.
>>>>
>>>> host 224.0.0.251
>>>>
>>>> will tell you a bit more.
>>>>
>>>> Alan.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Alan,
>>>
>>> $ host 224.0.0.251
>>> Host 251.0.0.224.in-addr.arpa. not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
>>>
>>> Not sure what I am suppose to find.
>>>
>>> This is why I ask (VLC's doing):
>>>
>>> kernel: Vlan-out Everything Else IN= OUT=eth0.5 SRC=192.168.254.10
>>> DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=56 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP
>>> SPT=5353
>>> DPT=5353 LEN=36
>>>
>>> eth0.5 is a virtual Ethernet too, not hooked to the Internet.
>>>
>>> And port 3535 UDP?
>>>
>>> $ grep -i 3535 /etc/services
>>> ms-la           3535/tcp                # MS-LA
>>> ms-la           3535/udp                # MS-LA
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you for the help,
>>> -T
>>>
>> Lysdexic are we? It's 5353 which seems to be an alternate DNS address.
>>
>> {^_^}   Joanne "me too be lysdexic"
>>
>
> Hi Joanne,
>
> $ grep -i 5353 /etc/services
> mdns            5353/tcp                # Multicast DNS
> mdns            5353/udp                # Multicast DNS
>
> Makes more sense.
>
> Interesting.  M$'s list of official ports does not
> list it:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832017#method67
>
> I have been working on a PCI (credit card security) probe
> of a customer's site all day.  I keep mixing up my ports
> with their's.   (When you probe the entire network, you get your own
> IP as well as their's and everyone else on the network.) AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!
>
> Apparently "lysdexic" is catching.  Now the point I really
> wanted to make was, was, was...  Oh phooey, I forgot.  :')
>
> Who are you again?  Are you still in the Navy?   :-D
>
> -T

Naw, even the Swiss navy would not accept me. But I have done some Swiss
Navy projects in my time. (Local slang for "personal". If the now have a
navy I'll have to use something like Nigerian Navy.)

{O,o]   Back into my hole in the wall.   Joanne Glad I helped you make sense.