[LBo] Firefox + "Akamai"

[Geoff Jones]

Hi,

On Friday 05 May 2006 11:00, Robert wrote:

> On Tue May 2 2006 13:38, Geoff Jones wrote:
> >  2] I have set up a Firestarter "Outbound Traffic Policy" to "deny
> > connection to host" 84.53.142.0-84.53.142.255, yet Firestarter still lets
> > thru a connection to this host network?
> >    am I missing a setting somewhere?
>
> Not sure.  How did you setup the deny policy?

I used the GUI - Policy [tab 3 ] Editing "Outbound Traffic Policy", which is 
set to "permissive" by default. Right click "Deny connections to host" + add 
rule IP, Host or Network "84.53.142.0-84.53.142.255" - does this setting 
exclude the whole network?. If I "deny" a single address in this range, I 
just get a connection to a different address in the range!

I am really more concerned to know the reason for this connection -
every time I load a web-page into Firefox , Firestarter shows that page's URL 
under "Active Connections" plus a connection to 84.53.142.*
I was wondering if I had picked up some sort of "tracker/reporting" bug?

I don't seem to get the same behaviour if I load the same pages in Konqueror.

Thanks,

Geoff.