Sorry for the top post. (blackberry again.) Kill the offending program, ofcourse. --
This too shall pass. -----Original Message----- From: Mohan Nayaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:21:35 To:"GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Unwanted Connections On Feb 1, 2008 11:49 PM, osric fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 1, 2008 1:54 PM, Rony wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I am back to using Etch-Kde and while the machine is idle, it shows > > occasional net activity. Netstat shows the following entries posted > > below. Why are bbc, rocky-mountain, steffani and such sites being > > contacted? How do I disable this? > <snip> > > -- > > Regards, > > > > Rony. > > Try netstat --program to list the PID & name of the process owning the > connection And how do you tear down a connection? I see this from netstat --program. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo netstat --program Password: Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 1 ZION.local:51051 www.flickr.vip.mud.:www LAST_ACK - tcp 0 0 ZION.local:34757 wr-in-f19.google.co:www ESTABLISHED3246/firefox-bin ... The connection to www.flickr.vip.mud.:www looks suspicious. How do I remove it? Regards, Mohan S N -- Perilous to all of us are the devices of an art deeper than we ourselves possess. -- Gandalf the Grey [J.R.R. Tolkien, "Lord of the Rings"] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
