Re: Who Is This Outfit

"john" wrote:

Rick Merrill wrote:
john wrote:
194 . 25 . 26 . 102

It's in the block 194.25.26.64 to 194.25.26.127 which belongs to
Akamai Techologies. They are an Internet content distribution service.

Deutsche Telekom AG

They are the ISP providing the wires.

OrgName: Hewlett-Packard Company OrgID: HP

I don't see how HP figures in this.

What's it to you?

They connected to my computer while I was browsing newsgroups.

Things don't connect to your computer unless you are running software
which is listening for, and capable of receiving connections.

It tied everything up. I ran netstat and got the ip number.

So what port did it use, and what program or service was listening on
the port that accepted the connection?


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