Could be something related to the earlier cookie controversy that was discussed.
I did dig too deeply into exactly what they were doing however. Chuck On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Glen Kent <glen.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I see that i have multiple TCP sessions established with facebook. > They come up even after i reboot my laptop and dont login to facebook! > > D:\Documents and Settings\gkent>netstat -a | more > > Active Connections > > Proto Local Address Foreign Address State > TCP gkent:3974 www-10-02-snc5.facebook.com:http ESTABLISHED > TCP gkent:3977 www-11-05-prn1.facebook.com:http ESTABLISHED > TCP gkent:3665 > a184-84-111-139.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com:http ESTABLISHED > > [clipped] > > Any idea why these connections are established (with facebook and > akamaitechnologies) and how i can kill them? Since my laptop has > several connections open with facebook, what kind of information is > flowing there? > > I also wonder about the kind of servers facebook must be having to be > able to manage millions of TCP connections that must be terminating > there. > > Glen > >
