Defense Network Information Center?

[immobilus]

Hi ALL:

Something strange just happened. I was up, watching youtube videos when all the sudden my macbook shut off. A screen came up saying that the "computer restarted because of a problem," or something similar. I immediately took to console. I was looking for strange entries. I found one.

5/31/15 3:54:51.000 AM kernel[0]: 7.15.166.24 (r541488)

Obviously, that's an IP address. So I did a search for it on google. It returns to Washington, D.C., and it belongs to "Defense Network Information Center."

What is this?

 

[simonsi]

Well that string turns up in crash logs across the internet, usually seems related to the Airport card. The "r541488" next to it is also a John Deere exhaust manifold part number. I don't think its "obviously" an ip address after all...but a good one for conspiracy theories

 

[smithrh]

Dang those John Deere exhaust manifolds, crashing Macs!

To the OP - don't automatically assume a 4-digit octet is an IP address. You're probably right very often, but will be wrong quite a bit as well.