Strange connection on boot: mil

[madmusic]

Anyone else get this, or can you explain it? When booting my system connects to host-252-0.arin.net. A google for that only returns 2 hits. One is to

http://www.robtex.com/dns/host-252-0.arin.net.html

Following the server share from there evidently leads to .mil servers. Is this a tin foil hat moment? Could it be a monitoring of DU?

Suggestions, explanations or telling me my hat is too tight, all are welcome.

[woodsprite]

1. Could it be checking the time? I know some clock program I had

on my system allowed me to select several places to synchronize the clock, and several of the places they checked were military.

I am running Zone Alarm and have been blocking certain IPs. You could try something like that and see if everything still works OK after a reboot. You can also see other traffic back/forth to and from your machine.

[madmusic]

2. Thanks, that's probably it.

My hat was too tight! :)

EDIT: but I thought there would be far more Google hits for that, so is that a good excuse?