Re: evolution

[HdV@DTO.TUDelft.NL]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Martynas Domarkas wrote:

> Hi, it's me again and I have another stupid question: my evolution
> mailer in a short period of time repeatedly tries connect to some
> strange hosts:
>
>
> tcp 0 1 192.168.0.1:33931 205.156.51.200:80 SYN_SENT
> 4055/evolution-exec
>
> tcp 0 1 192.168.0.1:33932 206.14.209.40:80 SYN_SENT
> 4055/evolution-exec
>
> tcp 0 1 192.168.0.1:33933 63.236.73.20:80 SYN_SENT
> 4055/evolution-exec
>
> There are a LOT of connetcions: ~700 in a 5 minutes. I did not find any
> configuration options with that hosts.
>
> What could it be?

Well judging from the names I'd think you have the weather and news
features of the summary page enabled.

$ host 205.156.51.200
200.51.156.205.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer tgftp.nws.noaa.gov.
$ host 206.14.209.40
40.209.14.206.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer www.salon.com.
$ host 63.236.73.20
Host 20.73.236.63.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

Grx HdV