Recently redownloaded DK2 to enjoy it with the new update (torches still flicker way too fast, but otherwise awesome!) and after about a half hour of playing solo, my firewall barked about dk2.exe attempting to connect to 92.242.144.50. This seems somewhat off.

Thats strange, I've put in about 4 hours or so since yesterday and so far nothing has tried to connect to the internet. Did you install any other patches or mods?