Unknown IP Addresses connection attempts

Question

I start my chain with the following command (chain name: rabo):

-sudo multichaind rabo -daemon -debug=mchn -debug=mchnminor -debug=net

then i monitor the debug.log and see the following:

2017-02-14 12:41:57 net: Trying to connect to 192.168.168.153:7417 (by address)

2017-02-14 12:41:57 trying connection 192.168.168.153:7417 lastseen=0.0hrs

2017-02-14 12:41:57 MultiChainMiner started

2017-02-14 12:42:02 connection to 192.168.168.153:7417 timeout

2017-02-14 12:42:02 net: Connection not established

2017-02-14 12:42:08 Loading addresses from DNS seeds (could take a while)

2017-02-14 12:42:08 0 addresses found from DNS seeds

2017-02-14 12:42:08 dnsseed thread exit

2017-02-14 12:42:14 net: Trying to connect to 192.168.168.152:7417

2017-02-14 12:42:14 trying connection 192.168.168.152:7417 lastseen=3386.

 

 

My multichain.conf file rpcuser & password are present above i just excluded them:

 

rpcport=7416
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1

#DH network addresses
#rpcallowip=85.115.52.202
#rpcallowip=213.8.84.204

#Bank 1- Sydney
#rpcallowip=52.62.202.219
#rpcallowip=172.31.16.120

#New Bank 1 - Sydney
rpcallowip=13.54.114.61

Answer 1

A 192.168.x.x address is used for private address spaces, and does not refer to another computer on the open Internet. So I'm guessing that your node had a connection at some point in the past to another node which identified itself using this address, or it initiated a connection to another node on this address. If so it remembers the address and will automatically try to reconnect to it. Eventually with enough failures it will stop trying.

You can use the addnode API to explicitly remove an IP address from the connection retry list.