From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OklMV-0004se-BP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:07:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE835E079E for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:07:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A06AAE063E for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:35:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyf1 with SMTP id 1so2599876gyf.40 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:35:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=p25puRrVBF9VuDzhkoG4PsqAbNNbNDJP15eF0TnbCJk=; b=ONg71LZZMHHqxbe/TmdTZ9h5k3I0n0YyTH2QWaA7FhWqiw3U9o/ebfuyh8ERbkh5YV C4EcAyTgCcduNiezjXb4NYQiTWlBWm3Bpytun0tt9TFxyzWbXgD4DM1UHQTWffZSCQWy Oo2ywrCmvuJFyK35SfANxIjMknswBccLqlM7k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Wq1Gmh6BmT1hvJODkMAp13PYl/1JkTP9vyXF+LWt6aH57F+L9eiRG+dtde9mzkW2nr gBQu9rhR4NYS6uz8rSK/cka5774kFCxnnpip02ZBDsDqSW7Ipuq8uwf8mOwvTC0Bl5+C /fJYzdwvRVtwxBZlv5H7U0Uz0tkLkbIJQAlMc= Received: by 10.101.78.15 with SMTP id f15mr4243296anl.121.1281908103631; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:35:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-95-148-78.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.148.78]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a12sm8943537and.16.2010.08.15.14.35.02 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:35:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C685D85.6030701@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:35:01 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100801 Gentoo/2.0.6 SeaMonkey/2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic. References: <4C684F59.3040903@gmail.com> <508758.46018.qm@web51906.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <508758.46018.qm@web51906.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 903bfc3f-578c-4e55-ad55-e60600760d0f X-Archives-Hash: 4346f64df9e79d2f4aaa64d77decd8fa BRM wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- > > >> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Dale wrote: >> >>> Hi folks, >>> I been noticing the past few weeks that something is communicating with >>> Yahoo at these addresses: >>> >>> cs210p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com >>> >>> rdis.msg.vip.sp1.yahoo.com >>> >>> I thought it was Kopete getting some info, profile pics maybe, from the >>> server. Thing is, it does this for a really long time. It is also >>> > SENDING > >>> data as well. I have no idea why it is doing this or what it is sending. >>> > I > >>> closed the Kopete app but the data still carries on. This "transfer" has >>> >> I think it's normal. >> >> The first address is one of their pool of messaging servers and the >> second is a web server, probably like you said for retrieving >> additional info. The sending of data could be the http request, or >> updating your status/picture/whatever kopete may be doing. You could >> try blocking it and see what breaks. :) >> > Likely true as Yahoo!'a interfaces are highly AJAX driven - with their own PHP > oriented widget kit as well. > So if you have a web page open to any Yahoo! site that is probably what is doing > it. > > Ben > > Wouldn't it stop tho if I closed Kopete? I'm not using Yahoo's messenger tho. I don't think they have one now. I did also trying closing Seamonkey to but the traffic continues. I very rarely go to yahoo.com. Also, this can carry on for a really long time. This can last over 30 minutes. Dale :-) :-)