On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Martynas Domarkas wrote: > Hi, it's me again and I have another stupid question: my evolution > mailer in a short period of time repeatedly tries connect to some > strange hosts: > > > tcp 0 1 192.168.0.1:33931 205.156.51.200:80 SYN_SENT > 4055/evolution-exec > > tcp 0 1 192.168.0.1:33932 206.14.209.40:80 SYN_SENT > 4055/evolution-exec > > tcp 0 1 192.168.0.1:33933 63.236.73.20:80 SYN_SENT > 4055/evolution-exec > > There are a LOT of connetcions: ~700 in a 5 minutes. I did not find any > configuration options with that hosts. > > What could it be?
Well judging from the names I'd think you have the weather and news features of the summary page enabled. $ host 205.156.51.200 200.51.156.205.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer tgftp.nws.noaa.gov. $ host 206.14.209.40 40.209.14.206.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer www.salon.com. $ host 63.236.73.20 Host 20.73.236.63.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Grx HdV
