LinuxQuestions.org - What are these connections and why are they happening?

Hi all,

I started to notice a disturbing trend in the last few weeks. When I power on my Fedora workstation in the morning I've been noticing connections being made to remote servers which I have no idea what these connections are.

I've preferred Linux over windows specifically because I don't like all the chatter Windows machines make (even when idle) since I have no way of knowing what data is being passed to and from my machine.

Can anyone tell me why Fedora 17 might be making connections to the servers below after I login but before I have opened any connections to anything. I see these connections after I login while the machine is idle and I haven't started actually using the machine.

I'm particularly disturbed about the ftp connections. FTP isn't used for anything but transferring files and that makes me quite paranoid.

Code:

Active Internet connections (w/o servers)

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State      

tcp        0      0 LISAXPS410FEDORA:58308  mirror.lstn.net:ftp     ESTABLISHED

tcp        0      0 LISAXPS410FEDORA:38648  fedora.mirrors.tds:http TIME_WAIT  

tcp        0      0 LISAXPS410FEDORA:46673  ftp1.nacs.uci.edu:ftp   ESTABLISHED

tcp        0      0 LISAXPS410FEDORA:49605  dl02.fedoraproject:http TIME_WAIT  

tcp        0      0 LISAXPS410FEDORA:38113  fenchurch.gtlib.ga:http TIME_WAIT  

tcp        0      0 LISAXPS410FEDORA:44056  mirror.CS.Princeton:ftp ESTABLISHED

tcp        0      0 LISAXPS410FEDORA:33957  fedora.mirror.cons:http TIME_WAIT  

tcp        0      0 LISAXPS410FEDORA:33796  mirror.nexicom.net:ftp  ESTABLISHED

tcp        0      0 LISAXPS410FEDORA:33117  mirror.itc.Virgini:http TIME_WAIT  

tcp        0      0 LISAXPS410FEDORA:52504  hilbert.unl.edu:http    TIME_WAIT  

tcp        0      0 LISAXPS410FEDORA:50175  mirrors.solfo.com:http  TIME_WAIT