Re: unwanted connections when firefox opens

2011-01-13 Thread Bluejay Adametz
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? Something like: -A OUTPUT -d

Re: unwanted connections when firefox opens

2011-01-13 Thread g
On 01/13/2011 12:00 PM, Bluejay Adametz wrote: snip bluejay, thank you for reply; Something like: -A OUTPUT -d nnn.ip.addr.nnn -p all -j REJECT this is true. added to your /etc/sysconfig/iptables file and a restart of iptables ought to block access to the specified IP address.

unwanted connections when firefox opens

2011-01-12 Thread g
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

Re: unwanted connections when firefox opens

2011-01-12 Thread Steven J. Yellin
You can learn enough about iptables to use your firewall for blocking traffic to and from those sites. Maybe you'll then find some image you're used to seeing will vanish. Steven Yellin On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, g wrote: greetings, for some time, i have been noticing network traffic when i

Re: unwanted connections when firefox opens

2011-01-12 Thread g
On 01/13/2011 12:46 AM, Steven J. Yellin wrote: You can learn enough about iptables to use your firewall for blocking traffic to and from those sites. Maybe you'll then find some image you're used to seeing will vanish. i read/studied 4 good books on operations of ipchains and iptables

Re: unwanted connections when firefox opens

2011-01-12 Thread Phong Nguyen
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

Re: unwanted connections when firefox opens [SOLVED]

2011-01-12 Thread g
On 01/13/2011 01:58 AM, Phong Nguyen wrote: 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. thank you for