[clug] Dialing Home

[Owen Cook]

> Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 1:04 PM
> From: "Scott Ferguson" <scott.ferguson.clug at gmail.com>



> Note: I've found privoxy phoning home in the past. An entry in
> /etc/hosts stops that.
> 
> lsof | tail -n +2 | awk '{print $1 " " $2}'

Hi, 


I have a WD network drive and found it was "dialing Home" (129.253.8.107) chewing up about 400Kbytes/hour. 

Can I really put something in /etc/hosts that will stop that?

Thought an iptables drop would sort that out but the limited debian distro in the network drive doesnt have iptables.

Thought a configuration change to my DLink router would fix it also, but the router seems to accept web addresses only.


TIA


Owen