The Bat! calls out at start?

I noticed that there was a lot of TCP traffic immediately after I
opened The Bat!. I closed it then re-opened it, but it did not happen
again.

So I rebooted, then started a packet-capture program THEN started up
The Bat!.

Sure enough, there was then outbound traffic. What I saw was not
harmful. Bat was going through all the registered DNS addresses and
asking about
Name: csc3-2004-crl.verisign.com

Then Bat! went to Verisign and asked a few things and got back a long
encrypted list. :

GET /CSC3-2004.crl HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
User-Agent: CryptRetrieveObjectByUrl::InetSchemeProvider
Host: csc3-2004-crl.verisign.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
Cache-Control: no-cache

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 10:39:52 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix)  (Red-Hat/Linux)
Last-Modified: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 10:00:25 GMT
ETag: "7355-3ae3-42bd2b39"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 15075
Content-Type: application/pkix-crl
X-Cache: MISS from idn10-wceast
Age: 608
X-Cache: HIT from idn3-wceast
Connection: keep-alive

0‚:ß0‚9Ç0 ..*†H†÷ .....0´1.0...U....US1.0...U. ..VeriSign,
Inc.1.0...U....VeriSign Trust Network1;09..U...2Terms of use at
https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)041.0,..U...%VeriSign Class 3 Code

Signing 2004 CA.   ...............and so on

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So, can anyone tell me what was being acquired and why?

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Thanks for the help ...
Robert D.
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