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My Mandrake 2006 system is continually trying to contact the following

host: frontal2.mandriva.com on port 80 and sometimes on port 20480.

 

I cannot find which program is doing this and I have NOT requested any

such contact!

 

Does anybody know WHY this happens and what program is doing this?

 

I use KDE V 3.4.2 with a customised 2.6.11-13mdk kernel on an IBM

Thinkpad A30.

 

Thank you for any replies

Ceri Hankey

(cchankey@3ich.net)

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Sounds like you've got an applet running that's trying to contact the site for updates or something :unsure: look by your clock for an applet.

 

I'm surprised by your kernel though, the minimal one that came with Mandriva was 2.6.12.12mdk so am surprised you are using one less than this! Not that this has anything to do with your problem, but just surprised that's all :P

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I cannot find which program is doing this and I have NOT requested any such contact!

I found out one day that the network interface monitoring

(you know that graph with the up/download rates)

was checking the network by pinging mandriva.

Well it did need to ping something... never asked me if I agreed

(hence firewall settings are also important with outgoing connections)

 

So it is not unusual

 

As to how to identify the application, I cannot remember the exact

trick

host: frontal2.mandriva.com on port 80 and sometimes on port 20480.

Did you find this from wireshark

 

or from netstat output?

 

not sure, but from netstat you can find the pid of the process,

then from ps -eaf knowing the pid you can find the command line,

hence the application.

I really cannot remember how I obtained the pid of the process

(a flag with netstat?)

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Thank you all for your answers - I am still trying to trace the source of this odd connection!

 

re Did you find this from wireshark

I must admit I found it by running a windows program (tcpview) under wine! I am still trying to make netstat produce an output!

 

Re the version of my kernel, I could not get Basilisk II (Mac emulator) to talk to my ethernet interface with the default kernel for Mandrive 2006. I seem to remember that I found the 2.6.11-13mdk kernel on one of the CD's.

 

Regards

Ceri Hankey=

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