According to NIS v7 Mac, the symdaemon process, both at a client's work and also on my home computer, is constantly connected to ip 40.114.95.106 via port 80. That IPv4 is hosted at Microsoft according to whois from arin.net. Why is this port open out of my Mac always? Is this a port controlled by Symantec or someone else? Is this just a placeholder IP so that the the symdaemon can monitor the port? Why use a MS domain IP for that? Doesn't Symantec have their own domain for such things?
Anyone know the answer to this?