[LBo] Firefox + "Akamai"

[Sam Morgan]

Geoff Jones wrote:

> 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.
> 
you might play with some of the tools on this page to try to narrow down who and 
what is responsible and from there be able to determine more info.
http://www.dnsstuff.com/
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God Bless,
Sam Morgan

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