Re: Pointcast and destination IP 1.1.1.1

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They are checking to see if they have net connectivity, because it can run
in offline mode.  If you try to send a packet to an unreachable host, you'll
get an ICMP unreachable -> EXXXX socket error.

--Perry

>
> Sniffing the network I can see this strange behavior:
> Each time a PC client is starting a pointcast update, it will send packets
> with a destination IP address of 1.1.1.1
> The destination port is 12345, 1 or 8080
> The source port varies
>
> I have look at the pointcast knowledge-db wo/ finding anything
>
> Anyone have any idea on that?
>
> Thanks,
>    - jean -
>


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