[pchelpers] Re: program phoning home?
- From: "GCox" <gcox@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 18:26:16 -0700
No, Scott I don't have a router. I think I'll keep blocking this activity
til I come upon a good reason not to. You really helped a lot and I do
appreciate it all of you who posted on this.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott McNay" <Wizard@xxxxxxxx>
To: "GCox" <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 1:48 PM
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: program phoning home?
Hi George
Sunday, July 13, 2003, 3:30:55 PM, you wrote:
G> Scott I couldn't make head nor tails of all this info. Any ideas on what
it
G> all means?. It looks like the IANA is collecting info for unnamed parties
G> who express specific interest in the pc broadcasting to them.
IANA is responsible for Internet standards. It looks like that IP
address is often used by routers; do you have something like that?
The IGMP that I mentioned is Internet Group Management Protocol.
"The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) is an Internet protocol
that provides a way for an Internet computer to report its multicast
group membership to adjacent routers. Multicasting allows one computer
on the Internet to send content to multiple other computers that have
identified themselves as interested in receiving the originating
computer's content. Multicasting can be used for such applications as
updating the address books of mobile computer users in the field,
sending out company newsletters to a distribution list, and
"broadcasting" high-bandwidth programs of streaming media to an
audience that has "tuned in" by setting up a multicast group
membership."
--Scott.
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