Using an Internet connection to guess your location is precisely and
solely what ubuntu-geoip is for. So while this may be a bug in
individual packages that use ubuntu-geoip, I don't see how this can
possibly be a bug in ubuntu-geoip itself.
** Also affects: indicator-datetime (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: indicator-datetime
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/944251
Title:
Unwanted secret outbound connection
Status in The Date and Time Indicator:
New
Status in “indicator-datetime” package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in “ubuntu-geoip” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in “unity-scope-video-remote” package in Ubuntu:
Opinion
Bug description:
On my Precise box i found some unwanted connections.
I never told any process/programm to do that.
output of 'netstat -atulpen'
tcp 1 0 10.1.2.4:35438 46.137.162.6:80
CLOSE_WAIT 1000 16447 2322/python
tcp 1 0 10.1.2.4:51869 91.189.94.25:80
CLOSE_WAIT 1000 8846 2303/ubuntu-geoip-p
output of 'ps faux | grep 2322'
1000 2322 0.0 0.2 607636 17320 ? Sl 09:02 0:00
/usr/bin/python /usr/lib/unity-scope-video-remote/unity-scope-video-
remote
output of 'ps faux | grep 2303'
1000 2303 0.0 0.0 160488 5220 ? S 09:02 0:00
/usr/lib/ubuntu-geoip/ubuntu-geoip-provider
output of ' whois 46.137.162.6':
inetnum: 46.137.128.0 - 46.137.191.255
netname: AMAZON-EU-AWS
descr: Amazon Web Services, Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2, EU
output of ' whois 91.189.94.25':
inetnum: 91.189.88.0 - 91.189.95.255
netname: CANONICAL-CORE
descr: Canonical Ltd
Whatever you are doing: Stop doing this things with _my_ computer without
asking me!
If i want phone-home-stuff, i can watch ET or use M$ W!nd*ws.
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