Re: DNS weirdness on IPCop for new laptop

Chris Bell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.ipcop.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Hello,
I do not know what OS your computers are using, although there is a mention of 
M$ 10.
The results of a 
whois 198.105.244.130
give

NetRange:       198.105.240.0 - 198.105.255.255
CIDR:           198.105.240.0/20
OrgName:        Search Guide Inc
OrgId:          SG-63
Address:        1942 Broadway
Address:        Suite 319
City:           Boulder
StateProv:      CO
PostalCode:     80302
Country:        US

and plenty more info. I suggest it is more likely you have visited a corrupt 
website that has cracked your machine and "called home". The firewall blocks 
external sources trying to initiate a connection but does not stop your 
machine trying to access sites, so if your machine initiates a connection the 
firewall will not block any return packets, and your machine could either keep 
the connection alive or call back again later.
You could configure the firewall to prevent all connections in both directions 
for that address block.

Chris Bell
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