>> 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 nnn.ip.addr.nnn -p all -j REJECT

added to your /etc/sysconfig/iptables file and a restart of iptables
ought to block  access to the specified IP address. But that's just
covering up the root cause.

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