I'll bet a nickle they've got an NT machine on the network somewhere.
We have a customer that started as an ISDN on-demand dialup, and saw the
same thing. They thought it was our fault, looking at mis-programming of
the router, but the router never dialed when not connected to the network.
They methodically removed each computer (mostly Unix, some Win95) from
the network, and waited for a connection. When they took the NT4.0 machine
off, the connections stopped. As far as services and the like, the machine
had virtually nothing on it - it had an IP address and 255.255.255.0 mask,
but yet it still wanted to go somewhere that wasn't local. We never
bothered to put a sniffer on it, but the theory was that it had to keep
checking in with the mothership!
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