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On Tuesday 22 September 2009, Grant wrote: |
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> I have a remote system on which shorewall blocks all outgoing 80/443 |
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> traffic except for 1 destination IP. I noticed that whenever someone |
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> logs in to an xfce4 session on that system, I see a bunch of rejected |
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> 80/443 requests from that system to various Google IPs from throughout |
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> their session. Does Firefox periodically make Google requests for |
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> some reason? The person logging in says they aren't attempting to |
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> access Google, and the home page is not set to go there. Does anyone |
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> know why this might be happening? |
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> |
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> - Grant |
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It may have something to do with the default search engine in FF's drop down |
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search field. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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