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connecting to Multicast IP
Hello, I am new to the forums and I am just now realizing this is a windows seven community haha. I have windows 10 but I believe this still applies to both OS versions.
I had a question about theses multicast IPs 239.255.255.250 and 224.0.0.251, I did some research and they seem to be m-cast IP's, Im a litte confused as to why my computer is still connecting to Multicast, I disabled SSDP and all multicast traffic. I understand this could still be normal behavior but what worries me more is that sometimes google thinks im in russia eventhough im using a VPN with a completely different server location. this happens occasionally and out of the blue. and usually leads google to try verify that a human is making those requests. I also randomly got a connection from 1.2.3.4 from a brief second I don't know what that was about. my bad if this is all over the place but if you need other info leave a reply and I will get to it as soon as possible. Thank you!
PS: I've also tried doing ipleak tests online and everything appears to be normal, no ip or dns leaks. the problem seems to arise only with google.