[145141] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: facebook spying on us?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Duerstock)
Thu Sep 29 09:22:28 2011
In-Reply-To: <CAPLq3UOHKF3kSRkcqyjBJpJ3wLoJtrJG2ehqiiz1Mv3Sog8P=Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:20:16 -0400
From: Jason Duerstock <jason.duerstock@gallaudet.edu>
To: Glen Kent <glen.kent@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Use 'netstat -ao' to see which process(es) they are associated with.
Then use a sniffer to see what actual traffic they carry.
Jason
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Glen Kent <glen.kent@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I see that i have multiple TCP sessions established with facebook.
> They come up even after i reboot my laptop and dont login to facebook!
>
> D:\Documents and Settings\gkent>netstat -a | more
>
> Active Connections
>
> =A0Proto =A0Local Address =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Foreign Address =A0 =A0 =A0 =
=A0State
> =A0TCP =A0 =A0gkent:3974 =A0 =A0www-10-02-snc5.facebook.com:http =A0ESTAB=
LISHED
> =A0TCP =A0 =A0gkent:3977 =A0 =A0www-11-05-prn1.facebook.com:http =A0ESTAB=
LISHED
> =A0TCP =A0 =A0gkent:3665
> a184-84-111-139.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com:http =A0ESTABLISHED
>
> [clipped]
>
> Any idea why these connections are established (with facebook and
> akamaitechnologies) and how i can kill them? Since my laptop has
> several connections open with facebook, what kind of information is
> flowing there?
>
> I also wonder about the kind of servers facebook must be having to be
> able to manage millions of TCP connections that must be terminating
> there.
>
> Glen
>
>
