Hi

> From: John Andersen [mailto:jsapen.homeip.net]
>
> On Monday 13 May 2002 11:59 am, Geordon VanTassle wrote:
> > Can someone please point me to the right direction to look to stop
> > logging this particular thing?  I can't even figure out why the
> > Windows computer at 192.168.1.20 is trying to ping 207.26.131.137,
> > which isn't alive even, but that's a different story.
>
> Don't try to suppress the logging, try to suppress the pinging.
> Its VERY unusual for a windows machine to ping something
> all by itself, Find out WHY.

i guess this box uses software like audiogalaxy, imesh or something similar.
these programs try to ping hosts known to share multimedia files.
if you were connected to an audiogalaxy-server once, you will be pinged for
some time, before the ip-address is removed from the database.

regards,
stefan

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