Connections to various google hosts without intervention.
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 8:46 pm
I keep seeing Linux Mint connect to Google despite my best efforts to get it to do otherwise.
On a fresh install of Linux Mint 13 i386 MATE it will make connections to http://www.l.google.com www-ccld.l.google.com and android-market.l.google.com on 1st login without having launched anything.
After telling mintupdate to test something other than google and disabling the welcome screen, then rebooting, on logon it connects to the first two hosts again plus... youtube-u.l.google.com !!!
These aren't simple pings, there's cookies, there's my side identifying itself as having a useragent of phython and plenty of HTTP data exchanged on both sides but I can't explain what or why this is happening.
I've reproduced this consistently, doing fresh installs again and again, seeing the same results. The box recording all the traffic has two NICS and wireshark is monitoring eth1 which only has the mint PC attached, no traffic from other devices or even the host itself running wireshark appears in the log.
I went onto your IRC channel (nice link from the welcome screen btw), they suggested I run sudo lsof -i , sudo netstat -lptu and sudo netstat -tulpn to establish what is making these connecitons but they're closed before I can get a chance to open the terminal... I've spent far too much time on this already and hope someone else can explain this and tell me how to stop it!
I really like what you guys have done with Gnome 2 and the fantastic mintmenu but having finally taken the time to properly look at the traffic out of all my kit, it was a massive surprise to see Mint being the only source of concern. This is a dealbreaker for a paranoid fool like myself, I don't want to connect to google for any reason... their record on privacy is shocking.
On a fresh install of Linux Mint 13 i386 MATE it will make connections to http://www.l.google.com www-ccld.l.google.com and android-market.l.google.com on 1st login without having launched anything.
After telling mintupdate to test something other than google and disabling the welcome screen, then rebooting, on logon it connects to the first two hosts again plus... youtube-u.l.google.com !!!
These aren't simple pings, there's cookies, there's my side identifying itself as having a useragent of phython and plenty of HTTP data exchanged on both sides but I can't explain what or why this is happening.
I've reproduced this consistently, doing fresh installs again and again, seeing the same results. The box recording all the traffic has two NICS and wireshark is monitoring eth1 which only has the mint PC attached, no traffic from other devices or even the host itself running wireshark appears in the log.
I went onto your IRC channel (nice link from the welcome screen btw), they suggested I run sudo lsof -i , sudo netstat -lptu and sudo netstat -tulpn to establish what is making these connecitons but they're closed before I can get a chance to open the terminal... I've spent far too much time on this already and hope someone else can explain this and tell me how to stop it!
I really like what you guys have done with Gnome 2 and the fantastic mintmenu but having finally taken the time to properly look at the traffic out of all my kit, it was a massive surprise to see Mint being the only source of concern. This is a dealbreaker for a paranoid fool like myself, I don't want to connect to google for any reason... their record on privacy is shocking.