On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 22:33 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: > On Friday 11 January 2008 21:36:49 Hans Witvliet wrote: > > But much to my surprise, allmost each pdf opened within firefox result > > in two external name lookups: one for an internal adobe-site and another > > for a site related to the content or author of the related pdf. > > > > I took the precaution to disable recursion, but the verya latest reader > > from acrobat is still spying on you!!! > > That does not follow. A DNS lookup isn't directly visible to the owner of the > URL. It also doesn't contain any data from your system > > Did you verify with wireshark what happened other than the dns lookups? > > Anders
Not yet, will inverstigate it more next week. No information got leaked out, As the dns-lookup failed, the tcp-connection could not be establised. But it remains strange that for normal http,ftp traffic everything goes straight to the proxy, but when an pdf is opened with acrobat out-bound ip connection were tried to initiated. Perhaps i should also try another pdf-viewer.... hw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
