10.255.76.1:67 trying to acces svchost.exe according to zonealarm

[lardboy]

According to my zonealarm logs the ip address 10.255.76.1:67 keeps trying to connect with svchost.exe which I understand to be the generic host process of XP.

I have this set to allow access but block server in zonealarm.

According to smartwhois that ipaddress is connected to -

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
Marina del Rey, CA
US

Reading their website the address is a "Private Use" IP address and the connection is coming from my "local environment" which to me means the NTL network.

Can anybody give me some more information on this.

[Graham M]

10. sounds like the UBR to me

[Paul]

Port 67 (UDP) is DCHP, you should probably allow it. :)

[Graham M]

That's quite a useful protocol :)

[lardboy]

Thanks for the info.

Thing is I've always blocked server on the "Generic Host Process" and I've never had any connection issues. :confused:

[greencreeper]

Blocking port 67 as server would only cause a problem if your PC was a DHCP server, which it should not be. Your PC should be a DHCP client, though - making requests to NTL's DHCP servers to obtain/renew an IP address (lease).

The Zone Alarm forums have useful information on configuration.

[cookster]

Why use zone alarm when NTL offer a perfectly good Firewall free of charge?

[Graham M]

Because anyone with any sanity wont let any NTL branded software near their machine :p:

[lardboy]

Why use zone alarm when NTL offer a perfectly good Firewall free of charge?

Zonealarm is free anyway and I trust that more than I trust anything that NTL would offer for free :D