One thing I like about running Little Snitch is that I learn more than I ever really wanted to know about all of the little OS processes that run in the background. Last night Little Snitch asked if I should let a process called 'Racoon' connect to a remote address.
It's not a good idea to deny the Racoon if you want to use any kind of VPN.1
And 49747 is the port on your Mac the other computer attempted to connect to. 192.168.0.1 is the IP address of the computer or device attempting to initiate a connection with your Mac. And 53 is the port that the connection attempt originated from. Practice makes perfect. After a while, reading your Mac’s firewall log will become second nature. 1 day ago Wednesday, April 28th 3:51pm: A Traffic Stop in the 900 Block of North Grimmell Road resulted in Madelyn Meyer of Huxley being cited for, “Excessive Speed.” 4:03pm: A Traffic Stop at Reed and Elm Streets resulted in.
Raccoon is an open source, third party, platform independent APK Downloader for the Google Play Store, licensed under the terms of the Apache 2 License. The goal of the Raccoon project is to enable you to safely gain access to Android Apps without having to bind your smartphone to Google or having to fall back on questionable websites.
Raccoon Delver Mac Os 11
Also, here's a very good site that lists all known Mac processes.
Raccoon Delver Mac Os Catalina
'Um, turns out...' this is used by several Mac services, including Back to My Mac. I also think it's used by iTunes in some way. When I block racoon with Little Snitch, iTunes will never finish looking for updates. ↩