I wasn't sure quite where to put this tbh, but here seems about the best place overall. Despite the Linux-heavy info this IS a network/traceroute question and would have applied just as much had I happened to be in Windows running "random firewall X" at the time.
I'm currently in Linux (kernel 2.6.31-19-SMP x64) and am running Firestarter as a GUI for iptables firewall. I put my PC in the DMZ on the router last night to have a play around with the firewall (it's a clean Linux install remember, nothing to worry about) and left it at that. Shieldsup! from GRC reports that I'm 100% stealthed, my policy is whitelist only for in AND outbound, and I am set to silently drop WAN ping requests; so I'm pretty locked down.
When I logged on this morning I had lots of interesting hits from all over the place, mostly worms and bots randomly scanning out port 445 for vulnerable Microsoft-DS services. However, I had a significant number of traceroute entries from an IP (63.245.208.11) that resolves to route-optimization-probe.sj.mozilla.com.
Has anyone ever seen/heard this before? Google provides a few people as confused/curious as I am, but no answers that I can see. Does anyone know what this is all about? Seems weird that Mozilla would go randomly banging on people's door so to speak, with traceroutes.
I'm currently in Linux (kernel 2.6.31-19-SMP x64) and am running Firestarter as a GUI for iptables firewall. I put my PC in the DMZ on the router last night to have a play around with the firewall (it's a clean Linux install remember, nothing to worry about) and left it at that. Shieldsup! from GRC reports that I'm 100% stealthed, my policy is whitelist only for in AND outbound, and I am set to silently drop WAN ping requests; so I'm pretty locked down.
When I logged on this morning I had lots of interesting hits from all over the place, mostly worms and bots randomly scanning out port 445 for vulnerable Microsoft-DS services. However, I had a significant number of traceroute entries from an IP (63.245.208.11) that resolves to route-optimization-probe.sj.mozilla.com.
Has anyone ever seen/heard this before? Google provides a few people as confused/curious as I am, but no answers that I can see. Does anyone know what this is all about? Seems weird that Mozilla would go randomly banging on people's door so to speak, with traceroutes.