[145147] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: facebook spying on us?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Hill)
Thu Sep 29 10:20:42 2011
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:20:10 -0400
From: David Hill <dhill@mindcry.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 06:43:49PM +0530, Glen Kent 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
:
: Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
: TCP gkent:3974 www-10-02-snc5.facebook.com:http ESTABLISHED
: TCP gkent:3977 www-11-05-prn1.facebook.com:http ESTABLISHED
: TCP gkent:3665
:a184-84-111-139.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com:http ESTABLISHED
:
:[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
:
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