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Re: unwanted connections when firefox opens [SOLVED]
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Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:43:16 +0000
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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 your reply and pointers.

as it turns out, godaddy.com and easyspeedy.com are actually hosting sites
for the software for 2 add-ons that i have installed and they are checking
for updates.

82.103.140.40 is for NoScript, by InformAction, hosted by easyspeedy.com.

i have not determined what godaddy.com is hosting.


my apoligies to all for burning storage.


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peace out.

tc.hago,

g
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