mDNS & 224.0.0.251

[Chris Mohler]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Dake K. Odzangba <odzangba at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I noticed this strange ip address: 224.0.0.251 when I was reviewing

Caused by avahi.  Here is a blog post about it:
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/zeroconf-ubuntu

Basically, avahi is trying to "auto-discover" resources on the network
- in the blog post, the developer makes the case that it's similar to
DHCP: IE, it's technically an open port, but it's useful enough to
allow.

Chris