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
> .
> 
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