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  1. tzucc

    tzucc Formula Junior

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    #1 tzucc, Aug 21, 2004
    I am sure there is a good reason for this, but having installed a new firewall sw, it constantly bangs me telling me that rackspace.com is trying to establish a TCP connection on port 80. Other similar chat boards powered by LAMP platforms don't do the same thing.

    I am a little rusty on cookie collections, but I don't think it's that.

    p.s. all other networking apps were shutdown, I ran spybot, and still I get this only when I open fchat.com.
     
  2. Schatten

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    #2 Schatten, Aug 21, 2004
    looks like it has to do with reading cookies on your system.
     
  3. tzucc

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    #3 tzucc, Aug 21, 2004
    I will do an ethereal and see if I can see what's going what to whom.
     
  4. rob lay

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    #4 rob lay, Aug 21, 2004
    Hmm, why would FerrariChat.com cause rackspace.com to ping your machine?

    I know vB uses cookies to retain your login and stuff. Let me know.
     
  5. mchferrari

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    #5 mchferrari, Aug 21, 2004
    Hope nobody takes this out of context. ;)
     
  6. tzucc

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    #6 tzucc, Aug 21, 2004
    Does fchat use rackspace for hosting?
     
  7. davey_jones

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    #7 davey_jones, Aug 21, 2004
    I use rackspace for our sites and am very pleased with the service.
     
  8. tzucc

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    #8 tzucc, Aug 21, 2004
    I rebooted, started ethereal and ferrarichat, and now the firewall doesn't complain about getting 'banged', nor does ethereal show any incoming tcp connection requests. Strange... maybe there was some in memory browser applet that spybot or firefox didn't detect. Well, for now, all seems well.

    If I find this to happen again, I'll fire up ethereal to find the culprit on my system.
     
  9. rob lay

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    #9 rob lay, Aug 21, 2004
    no
     

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