How to get rid of Blackhole IANA requests

I have continual traffic to/from 192.168.1.1, which is the harmless IANA Blackhole.


Have read that i should configure my network to stop this traffic so as to give IANA a break, but the regedit in this article, http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q259922 , is not what i have. (I know that ".isi.edu" is the old name.)

I am using the onboard nVidia Networking Controller, how can i stop, or 'loop', these requests so that these traffic attempts stop?

http://www.iana.org/faqs/abuse-faq.htm

 

I'm a little confused. Why is this traffic affecting IANA. The analysis you've posted shows a highlighted line with traffic from 192.168.1.33 (based on the remote MAC address) to 192.168.1.1. This traffic won't get past your router as it won't pass broadcast traffic (192.168.1.255).

 

The highlighted entry is just where the cursor ended up when opening the Sygate traffic page and scrolling the traffic log, sori ... that log page is representative of the continual unnecessary traffic with IANA's so-called 'blackhole' (URL Who Is?) ref'd in the links.

My modem/router panel and firewall log shows the repetitive, continual allowed traffic.

Millions of unneeded exchanges with IANA from thousands of machines like mine is wasting my and the web's time and said to one day endanger overloading IANA with useless "pings" or whatever they may be called.

I just want to stop this unneeded traffic, whatever it is; the MS KB regedit fix does not reflect exactly what is in my registry, and i wanted to be sure to make the correct fix.

I don't know much about Network configuration, is there a FAQ for this particular item, or a correct Regedit ?

 

K, thanks for the info, when i first saw this traffic happening i reviewed my handwritten logs (gasp) of installations and changes made. Nothing tracked down as the cause, but who knows what it might be.

i'll poke, prod & snoop to see if something bites.

 

That sounds a good reason...here is my current Task Mgr while the unwanted traffic continues. I have been unable to see a rhyme or reason to the traffic in relation to what apps are open. And the timing varies from a hit every few seconds, to hits just every ~15 minutes.
http://premium1.uploadit.org/owlscreech//TaskMgr_IANA_Ping_Search_22DEC05.jpg

Like now while typing, the hits are happening every 3 secs up to 7 minutes for the past hour while online, and the apps are just the normal ones needed for XP, IE, and Folding.

The utilities/apps like Babylon, AVG, Sygate, and MWSnap (a screenshot) identify themselves on the traffic log...

The googles for "..blackhole..iana..192.168.1.1" reveal there may be a network configuration setting or Regedit to do that will stop or "loop" the traffic, though those solutions don't quite match what I see here. I don't want to muck up the connection :~)

An action that may relate to the prob: While OC'ng a month ago, my onboard network controllers took a hike after a couple of the CMOS resets, and i reloaded the onboard drivers. I noticed this IANA traffic about week later...

Am using the onboard nVidia Networking Controller, and have not set up a DNS server, so i don't get it