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| Markus R. Keßler... |
 Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:57 am |
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Hi there!
Some days ago I installed ADSL for one of my networks, and now I see that
there are strange entries in the Wireshark / Ethereal trace when I run
this network connected to the internet.
I make the connection via "Fritz Box SL" router from AVM which is
connected to an 8 port 10/100 switch.
For my test I use only one machine with DLink/Realtech 10/100 NIC and
Mandrake 10.1. The trace, see
http://www.dipl-ing-kessler.de/temp/noaction.log
shows constant DNS queries for "mandrakeonline.net", though I do nothing -
no http, no ping, no nothing. B.t.w., this domain no longer belongs to
Mandr*. So this could be annoying for the new owner...
What's also making me nervous is that there's a query at least every 2
seconds, so the router always keeps the connection up, even when
configured for "internet connection on demand", of course.
Unfortunately I cannot see which process is causing this behaviour, nor
how to stop it. Maybe it's the network service itself.
Any ideas what could be wrong here and how to correct this?
Best regards,
Markus
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| Bit Twister... |
| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:57 am |
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On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:57:27 +0200, Markus R Keßler wrote:
Quote: Hi there!
I make the connection via "Fritz Box SL" router from AVM which is
connected to an 8 port 10/100 switch.
For my test I use only one machine with DLink/Realtech 10/100 NIC and
Mandrake 10.1. The trace, see
At best you should have installed 10.2. :(
Quote: Any ideas what could be wrong here and how to correct this?
You could look around in the files loaded by the mdkonline package.
If you can not find the controlling config file, you could remove the
mdkonline package. |
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| Bit Twister... |
| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:57 am |
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On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:57:27 +0200, Markus R Keßler wrote:
Quote: Hi there!
Some days ago I installed ADSL for one of my networks, and now I see that
there are strange entries in the Wireshark / Ethereal trace when I run
this network connected to the internet.
I make the connection via "Fritz Box SL" router from AVM which is
connected to an 8 port 10/100 switch.
For my test I use only one machine with DLink/Realtech 10/100 NIC and
Mandrake 10.1. The trace, see
Any ideas what could be wrong here and how to correct this?
Correction would be to do a clean install of a supported release or
Mandriva. 10.1 is missing a ton of security updates. |
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| Mark Draheim... |
| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 3:20 am |
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Markus R. Keßler wrote:
Hi,
Quote: For my test I use only one machine with DLink/Realtech 10/100 NIC
and Mandrake 10.1. The trace, see
this is way too old. Why not use the current distribution? Grab a live
CD and install it if you like it.
http://www.mandriva.com/en/download/free
Quote: shows constant DNS queries for "mandrakeonline.net", though I do
nothing - no http, no ping, no nothing. B.t.w., this domain no
longer belongs to Mandr*. So this could be annoying for the new
owner...
it's just a DNS query that is answered by your DNS server. The actual
IP of the domain holder is not hit by it AFAICS
Quote: Unfortunately I cannot see which process is causing this behaviour,
nor how to stop it. Maybe it's the network service itself.
Any ideas what could be wrong here and how to correct this?
I think the query comes from the firsttime wizard and was used for
registering your installation with Mandrake. As I do not know how to
stop the thing from bugging you to register, it might help to just
uninstall the rpm, though I can't tell you its name. Could be
mandrakefirsttime or mandrakeonline or some such.
cheers
Mark |
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| Bit Twister... |
| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 7:31 am |
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On 28 Aug 2009 14:44:09 GMT, Markus R. Keßler wrote:
I loaded 10.1 and mdkonline is the program which asked for your
mandriva account and/or register. I did a quick look in /etc/cron.d
and did not find anything. Will look around a bit more.
Quote: I installed 10.2, but not on this machine, because I'd like to have several
different OS versions - the more, the better.
Been there until I ran out of partitions on two drives. Tried LVM, now I use
VirtualBox from virtualbox.org.
Quote: Is there a tool like "lsof" etc., which can determine which process uses
_source_ port XYZ?
netstat may help a little. Some snippets from my unix help file
$ uh netstat
look at listening ports netstat -tunap (doze netstat -an)
look at port/pid netstat -anp
look at port/pid app netstat -pt
show connection/port/pid/prog netstat -p
display ports in use netstat -apv
display listening ports loop netstat -pvlA inet 2
display routing tables netstat -nr
display Interface Statistics netstat -i
display Connections netstat -ta
display program connections netstat -npt
display Connections/daemons netstat -tupan
display Connections/pid/prog netstat -pvlA inet 2
display Ethernet Interfaces ifconfig (dozs netstat -es )
dozs listening netstat /an
dozs XP listening netstat /ano |
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| Bit Twister... |
| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 7:46 am |
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On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:57:27 +0200, Markus R Keßler wrote:
Quote:
For my test I use only one machine with DLink/Realtech 10/100 NIC and
Mandrake 10.1. The trace, see
Unfortunately I cannot see which process is causing this behaviour, nor
how to stop it.
A quick look at mdkonline package files using Software Management,
Remove Software, shows a /etc/X11/init.d/mkkapplet.
I'll guess that is fired up when you start your gui desktop and is
calling home. |
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| Markus R." Keßler... |
| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 8:44 am |
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Hi,
Am Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:22:33 +0000 schrieb Bit Twister:
Quote: On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:57:27 +0200, Markus R Keßler wrote:
Hi there!
I make the connection via "Fritz Box SL" router from AVM which is
connected to an 8 port 10/100 switch.
For my test I use only one machine with DLink/Realtech 10/100 NIC and
Mandrake 10.1. The trace, see
At best you should have installed 10.2. 
I installed it, but not on this machine, because I'd like to have several
different OS versions - the more, the better.
And, well, I know, that there may be security relevant bugs which surely
will never be fixed. But anyway, see above.
Quote: Any ideas what could be wrong here and how to correct this?
You could look around in the files loaded by the mdkonline package. If
you can not find the controlling config file, you could remove the
mdkonline package.
Is there a tool like "lsof" etc., which can determine which process uses
_source_ port XYZ?
Best regards,
Markus
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| Bit Twister... |
| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:12 am |
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On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:40:37 +0200, Markus R Keßler wrote:
Quote: thanks a lot! That's the dubious package. I just commented out some
lines there (/etc/X11/xinit.d/mdkapplet) to read now:
Quick and dirty, but it works.
Yup, until the next package update.
Yes, not much chance of that happening for 10.x :)
I found a few autostart files on 2010.0 eating a bunch of gui startup time.
My solution was to create a hold directory and move the offending
files into it. I also have a daily cron/batch job to check system for
reoccurring package updates undoing my settings.
Files are found in /etc/xdg/autostart and /usr/share/autostart. |
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| Markus R. Keßler... |
| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 12:40 pm |
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On Fri, 28th of Aug 2009 17:46:37 +0000 Bit Twister wrote:
Quote: On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:57:27 +0200, Markus R Keßler wrote:
For my test I use only one machine with DLink/Realtech 10/100 NIC and
Mandrake 10.1. The trace, see
Unfortunately I cannot see which process is causing this behaviour, nor
how to stop it.
A quick look at mdkonline package files using Software Management,
Remove Software, shows a /etc/X11/init.d/mkkapplet.
I'll guess that is fired up when you start your gui desktop and is
calling home.
thanks a lot! That's the dubious package. I just commented out some
lines there (/etc/X11/xinit.d/mdkapplet) to read now:
#!/bin/sh
DESKTOP=$1
# case $DESKTOP in
# KDE|GNOME|IceWM) exec /usr/bin/mdkapplet;;
# esac
Quick and dirty, but it works.
Best regards,
Markus
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