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List:       ubuntu-users
Subject:    Re: Periodotic connections to http://mistletoe.canonical.com...
From:       Robert Heller <heller () deepsoft ! com>
Date:       2015-07-21 20:31:29
Message-ID: 201507212031.t6LKVT6r002291 () sharky2 ! deepsoft ! com
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At Tue, 21 Jul 2015 14:48:29 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general \
discussions" <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> At Wed, 22 Jul 2015 03:23:23 +1000 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general \
> discussions" <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 13:04 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> > > Why would a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS system (a VM in this case) be making periodotic 
> > > connections to http://mistletoe.canonical.com?  I am on a dialup connection 
> > > and don't really want my VMs making regular 'phone home' connections.  I do 
> > > things like updates using a mirror disk kept up-to-date with manual rsync's 
> > > from a disk kept up to date with debmirror on a server on a fast network 
> > > connection.  I don't need or want my VMs trying to be clever and using 
> > > bandwidth outside of my control.
> > 
> > Step 1: Google mistletoe.canonical.com
> > 
> > Step 2: Read the first hit (an AskUbuntu entry)
> 
> You mean this thread:
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2129712
> 
> This does not seem relevant...
> 
> (and the first hit relates to  The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia which 
> is even less revevant.)
> 
> (Oh, I use duckduckgo.com, not Google.)
> 
> And everybody gets different search results anyway.
> 
> I did a search of mistletoe.canonical.com AskUbuntu and got this:
> 
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/489510/xubuntu-14-04-making-strange-connections
> 
> (waiting for it to load...)
> 
> And it says
> 
> "Page Not Found
> 
> This question was removed from Ask Ubuntu for reasons of moderation. Please 
> refer to the help center for possible explanations why a question might be 
> removed."
> 
> My VM is making a connection every 90 seconds and is connecting for about 10 
> seconds (downloading about 30-40Kbytes at about 3 or 4 kbytes/sec, which is 
> the max bandwidth on my dial-up connection).
> 
> I am pretty sure I have disabled / deinstalled the auto update crap.  What 
> else do I need to get rid of?  This VM is only a build box.  I don't need or 
> want random automagicaly network access stuff going on.

I found what was going on.  

> 
> > 
> > Regards, K.
> > 
> 

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