[176114] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mozilla performing pdf.js DNS queries?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Chase)
Thu Nov 13 13:42:45 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 13:42:42 -0500
From: Ken Chase <math@sizone.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
In-Reply-To: <3353.1415898056@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
<@darq> 17:40 < ircperson> oof. apparently .prod is a TLD now
<@darq> 17:40 < ircperson> and a friend's environment is basically on fire.
<@darq> HAHAHA
/kc
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:00:56PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu said:
>On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:26:28 +0100, Seth Mos said:
>
>> Whilst rummaging through some DNS (dnsmasq) logs I've noticed quite a
>> decent amount of queries for pdf.js from what appear to be mozilla browsers.
>>
>> Seems rather odd that it is performing DNS queries for a internal PDF
>> viewer.
>
>Totally wild shot in the dark - recent Mozilla have an onboard PDF viewer
>written in javascript called pdf.js
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF.js
>
>It's callable from within other javascript via chrome:// or resource://
>references, but sometimes people don't get it right:
>
>http://superuser.com/questions/614002/how-to-open-pdf-js-in-firefox-via-chrome-url
>
>My guess is that somebody else didn't quite get it right, and is trying to
>get to the hostname when they intended to get to the javascript.....
--
Ken Chase - ken@heavycomputing.ca skype:kenchase23 +1 416 897 6284 Toronto Canada
Heavy Computing - Clued bandwidth, colocation and managed linux VPS @151 Front St. W.
