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|    Some Guy to Med Ley    |
|    Re: Possible to keep a network clean?    |
|    18 Feb 12 09:03:32    |
      From: Some@Guy.com              Med Ley wrote:              > Who do you think would want traffic from le100.net              Put this in your hosts file to prevent your computer from       sending/receiving traffic to (what-ever).1e100.net:              127.0.0.1 ajax.googleapis.com              > or the multiple EC2 amazon accounts that keep knocking for       > months every 10 seconds on all computers on an ISP's network?              I rarely look at my router's incoming log, but when I do I assume that       what I'm seeing is either P2P related (other people's P2P client looking       for a connection to my IP because my IP used to belong to someone doing       torrenting in the past) or the hits are bots looking for backdoors.              I'm curious - what Amazon clients would be using AWS-EC2 services to       knock on people's doors?              But to get back to ajax.googleapis for a minute:              I'm running a local web-server on my machine that serves up various .js       files that would ordinarily come from the hosts that I'm blocking with       the hosts file.              I intend to de-compile these js files and remove any back-tracking they       might be doing.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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