[cvsnt] Re: Taginfo error in 2.0.62.1861

[Tony Hoyle]

Oliver Giesen wrote:
> Bo Berglund wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'll publish the Inno installer for 1862 now.
> 
> 
> I installed that and now my desktop firewall tells me that cvslock.exe
> is attempting to send UDP packets to 224.0.0.251 (IANA Local Network
> Control Block) at regular intervals.
> Anyone knows what that is about?

Zeroconf.  The latest builds implement DNS service discovery.. there are 
no working clients at the moment though (although if you do 'mDNSBrowse 
_cvspserver._tcp.' from a Linux box it'll give you useful information).

224.0.0.x are never forwarded by routers (part of the multicast spec) so 
a firewall shouldn't be bothered by them.  You'll probably also find the 
packet has a TTL of 1 (although I haven't checked).

Tony