Re: who owns IP

From: David (thunderbolt01@netscape.net)
Date: 11/30/02


From: David <thunderbolt01@netscape.net>
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 16:56:22 GMT

Kwyjibo. wrote:
> David wrote:
>
>>Rob Wilkens wrote:
>>
>>>They could be just MSN and AOL members... No?
>>
>>Not very likely. The systems are registered to M$.com
>
>
> Microsoft-Global-Net is MS's Messenger network.
> Looking at my Sygate personal firewall on WinXP ATM shows that MSN
> messenger is connected to 207.46.106.194. port 1863. Very similar to the
> address mentioned before. Looks like MSN messenger connects to that
> server to find out who in your 'contacts' is online or maybe for a
> heartbeat to keep your status as 'online'. That server must be doing
> some outbounds as well.
>
> What ports are you picking them up on ?

It's been a while since I have seen anything from them in my logs
and don't remember all of the ports they tried except one and that
was a traceroute from both AOL and M$ with one of the M$ addresses
that I remember being something like c.microsoft.com I don't
remember the name of the AOL systems but I have also caught them
doing a traceroute and I am not an AOL customer.

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