On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, Ed Vance wrote to Adam Glazener:   
      
    EV> While I was installing it my Firewall asked me to O.K. a request   
    EV> from the program to 226.178.217.5 , I used ipdb.at to find out what   
    EV> it was but didn't see any results but O.K.'d it anyway.   
    EV> During the Install I clicked the Yes button on my Firewall about 50   
    EV> times until the installation was over.   
      
   that address is in the 224.0.0.0 - 239.255.255.255 range... that range is the   
   multicast range... multicasting is used to efficiently send the same data to   
   multiple destinations... common uses are for transmitting financial data (eg:   
   stock tickers) and streaming videos...   
      
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