Have you tried monitoring network traffic with iftop or netstat to determine what exactly is opening connections to those servers? GoDaddy also is a major SSL certificate authority and Firefox may be verifying a certificate from them.
On 12 Jan 2011, at 1737, g wrote: > greetings, > > for some time, i have been noticing network traffic when i open firefox. > > my 'round to it' finally installed wireshark and i have found that i > have data transfers with to sites. > > #1 - 72.167.239.239 = godaddy.com > #2 - 82.103.148.40 = easyspeedy.com > > i have no firefox add-ons related to above and have never loaded anything > that should be causing these connections. > > i tried putting name in '/etc/hosts' file to send them to '127.0.0.1', > but this did not work, so i am presuming that what ever is causing > connections is doing so by address and not by name lookup. > > anyone know of above two and what i can do to eliminate them? > > any help or advice will be greatly appreciated. > > > tia. > > -- > > peace out. > > tc.hago, > > g > . > > **** > in a free world without fences, who needs gates. > ** > help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. > ** > to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. > to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. > ** > learn linux: > 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html > 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ > 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html > 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ > **** >
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