Re: The Bat! calls out at start?

"Johannes M. Posel" <[email protected]> Sat, 25 Jun 2005 14:16:16 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.the-bat.devel
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Dear Robert,

On 6/25/05, Robert D. <p42015-tqJ/[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
[...]
> 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

A CRL is a "Certificate Revocation List" which lists SSL certificates
that the issuer (here it's Verisign) revoked. Every browser and
program that allows SSL should check these lists.

Best regards,
Johannes