Examining my firewall log, I found a large number of attempts to connect ty my port 6346 (gnutella-svc). 217.148.98.1 was a particular culprit recently (one without a domain name, apparently).

I have never run, or even downloaded, gnutella.

Why are they all trying to connect to me? Perhaps they used to be talking to another machine with the same IP address (i.e., he hung up, I dialed in, I got his IP address)? If so, could gnutella please take the hint when it can't connect?

Thanks